Chen Feng's words made the three naval commanders under his command fall into deep thought, to be honest, they were very skeptical of what Chen Feng said. Although Chen Feng was a very good general and commander, he commanded troops to win many battles, and even created many military miracles, but Chen Feng used to command the army, not the navy.

There is a big difference between the army and the navy, in comparison, the navy is more specialized, but the army is different. The army is interested in the physical condition of the soldiers, to put it bluntly, as long as they are healthy, not stupid, just like the current China, although China does not have many qualified soldiers who have undergone strict training, but it has withstood the onslaught of millions of elite troops of the Japanese army, which relies on China's almost inexhaustible human resources. It can be said that as long as the national government has money, not to mention millions of troops, even tens of millions of troops can be formed in a very short period of time.

The navy is different, the navy is not just a random person can do it, the water alone makes many northerners prohibitive, and the operation of naval warships is much more complicated than rifles. Those who can play with guns will not necessarily play warships, and even artillery in the army may not be able to operate naval guns.

In addition, there are many professional things to learn when fighting in the navy, especially to have enough knowledge of the climate and the ocean, courage alone is far from enough.

Chen Feng may be a very good army commander, but he is not necessarily an equally good naval commander, and there is really not much basis for predictions such as the battleships will be eliminated. They had also read Mahan's writings on sea power, which were regarded as the bible by the navies of the world. It is the guiding ideology of the navies of the major powers in the world, how can the naval tactical thinking derived from such a work be eliminated so quickly?

Moreover, they are not very optimistic about the tactics of using naval aviation to fight against battleships, and naval aviation does have some outstanding points, and if used well, they can even severely damage or even sink battleships. But to say that naval aviation will replace the battle columns and become the main force of operations at sea is simply a fantasy.

Chang Zhiguo was the first to retort: "Commander, do you mean not battleships, but the large-scale development of aircraft carriers and naval aviation?" ”

"Well, that's what it means, battleships are already something that is about to be eliminated, although it looks good. Actually, it's not much use! Of course. It's not like not one, after all, a huge ship like a battleship is too huge, and the morale of a good battleship is huge, and we can't ignore this! Chen Feng said.

Chang Zhiguo frowned and said, "Commander." This idea of yours may come to fruition later. But it won't work for a short time, at least! ”

"For what?" Chen Feng asked with interest.

Chang Zhiguo replied: "On the one hand, it is limited by aircraft technology. Naval aviation simply cannot accurately find the position of the opposing naval vessels, and aircraft cannot fight at sea for a long time, and generally can fly for a few hours at most. But the battleship did not have this concern. As long as there is fuel, it can always be anchored at sea, and with this replenishment, it can sail for ten days and half a month, and it can even drift at sea for a month with one or two supply ships. ”

"On the other hand, the only tactic of the aviation to deal with warships is to dive and drop bombs, and they have to be heavy bombs, and the kind of bombs weighing tens of kilograms are useless for large warships, even if they are hit, they are useless. This places high demands on the pilots who drop bombs. ”

"However, looking at the pilots of various countries in the world, the bombing rate of fixed targets on the ground cannot reach more than 30 percent, let alone ships moving on the sea. Take Li Ligang, the best naval pilot in our Yellow River Fleet, as an example, who took part in a total of 54 naval bombing drills and dropped a total of 227 real and fake bombs of 35 tons, but only 17 of them hit, with a hit rate of less than 8 percent. The idea of using naval aviation against the enemy is difficult to realize! ”

Chang Zhiguo was very thoughtful, and he also said what Tian Haiyang and Jiang Haitao wanted to say, in this situation, it is simply impossible to deal with battleships with the mode of aircraft carrier + naval aviation.

Chen Feng smiled and said: "Don't worry about this, the naval aviation equipment you are equipped with now is an old thing from the United States and the Soviet Union, either Martin bombers or inferior products made by the Soviet Union, since you want to develop the navy, you must even replace the belt bones, not only the navy must replace new ships, but also the naval aviation must be replaced with new equipment." As for what you are worried about, it is not a matter for the newly equipped fighters of our Navy. ”

Chang Zhiguo asked in surprise: "Commander, can it be said that the naval fighters that we are about to equip our troops with can solve the shortcomings of short combat radius and poor hit rate?" ”

Chen Feng said: "With a short combat radius, a large aircraft carrier can be used as a sea deck to shorten the flight range of naval aviation and increase the combat radius. As for the problem of hit rate, our new fighters can also solve it, and in addition, the performance of our new warships far exceeds that of Japanese warships, even if it is a frigate, it is not a problem to deal with a Japanese cruiser. ”

"Really?"

"Of course it's true, and the navy can't be developed in such a decentralized way, the naval command formed before can't play a role at all, we must re-establish a naval command, the headquarters is located in the Nanyang Territory, the three major fleets are placed under the naval command, and we also have to increase the submarine force. In addition, the training of naval personnel will also be put on the agenda, and we will establish our own naval university. ”

Then Chen Feng said: "You go back today, and after you go back, you will immediately conduct an inventory of your respective fleets, and all the ships with backward performance and low combat effectiveness will be towed back to the port for maintenance, and the valuable ones can be refitted, and then they will be incorporated into the Naval University for teaching, and the new ships and fighters will arrive in Nanyang Territory in a few days." ”

"Yes!"

After sending Chang Zhiguo and the others away, Chen Feng was alone in the study thinking about the future development path of the navy. Drawing on the history of the development of major naval powers in the world, it is not difficult to find that if the navy wants to be truly strong, it cannot do without advanced ships and outstanding naval talents.

The navy under his command is not only average in ship, but even the naval talent is far behind, there are almost no experienced naval commanders, don't look at Chang Zhiguo, Tian Haiyang and others are in the naval commandery, but in fact they are not pure navy, although they have received naval training in the United States and the Soviet Union and other countries for a period of time, but only less than a year.

It is difficult to build a truly powerful navy by relying on these people alone, so if we want to realize the naval dream of a great power, we must bring in talents, especially senior naval commanders, and at the same time improve our own naval personnel training mechanism.

After thinking about it, Chen Feng thought of Chen Shaokuan, the naval commander of the Nationalist Government. Speaking of Chen Shaokuan, this admiral's life is not easy, three years ago, he got from Chen Feng's hands, including the Flying Dragon cruiser, including three warships, and more than a dozen 10,000-ton giant freighters, which caused a lot of losses to the Japanese army in the South China Sea one after another, so the Japanese army's base camp Admiralty directly issued an order to destroy this hateful Chinese fleet at all costs.

After the Japanese occupied Vietnam, Chen Shaokuan, who had lost the most rearly naval base, had to withdraw to Burma with three warships.

However, the British were extremely unwelcome to Chen Shaokuan, an uninvited fellow, and not only did not give help, but urged Chen Shaokuan to evacuate the Burmese coast many times.

Although this is difficult, it is not a hurdle for a veteran like Chen Shaokuan. What made Chen Shaokuan most depressed was the exclusion of him within the party-state, the faction headed by He Yingqin did not have the slightest good impression of him, and the naval command was now under the management of He Yingqin's military and political department, so Chen Shaokuan felt depressed.

The civil engineering department headed by Chen Cheng did not have a good impression of him, and the relationship between the two sides was also very stiff, and Chen Shaokuan's life was indeed a little sad.

Chen Feng knew that the admiral of the navy was not having a good time in the Nationalist Government, so he started to dig into the wall. However, for an admiral like Chen Shaokuan, digging the foot of the wall is also skillful, and he can't make small moves in private, and if he wants to dig, he has to dig openly. Otherwise, it will not only cause Chen Shaokuan's dissatisfaction, but even Lao Jiang's dissatisfaction.

Soon, Chen Feng sent a telegram to Lao Chiang, requesting that Admiral Chen Shaokuan be transferred to the Eighth Theater to serve as the deputy commander of the theater and the commander of the naval forces of the Eighth Theater.

Chen Feng is not afraid that Chen Shaokuan is unwilling to come, as the saying goes, as long as the hoe is swung well, there is no wall foot that cannot be dug down. This digging man is the same as digging a woman, and the person who is being dug must be willing, and the original owner must be willing to let go, so that the corner can be dug well, so as not to hit his feet.

Chen Feng estimated that there should be no problem with Chen Shaokuan, that old gentleman had long been aggrieved, and he was not willing to miss this good opportunity if he didn't rush at Chen Feng, just at the more than 100 naval ships under the command of the Eighth War Zone.

But Chen Feng is only worried about Lao Jiang, this old guy's suspicion is too heavy, he is not only worried that Lao Jiang will detain Chen Shaokuan, but also worried that Lao Jiang will extend his tentacles into the navy through this. Although the navy is from top to bottom he (to be continued......