Sa Zhen Bing listened confused, naval aviation? It's an airplane, but what's the use of it? Can you blow up and sink a warship? ? At most, it's reconnaissance reconnaissance! And that marine, what the hell? In addition, the one in front of me rowed out some of the naval ships to form a coast guard, and nakedly dug the walls and feet mixed with sand! No, absolutely not, this Wang Wenzheng is too bad, if the navy lets him toss like this, then it will be dispersed.

By the way, Wang Zhenyu said so much, in fact, he had already made up his mind to pay attention to the Fujian people who were holding the group, don't you love the group? I will disperse you, and at the end of the day, I will add more than half of the other people to come in, and see how you will hug you.

Seeing that Sa Zhenbing was about to open his mouth to object, Wang Zhenyu immediately said: "In addition, we have another five-year jihua, and within five years, jihua will buy or build, and strive to increase the total tonnage of the navy to 100,000 tons." Now this 35,000 tons is really not enough, this is the idea of our Military Commission, it is a set, what do you think? ”

"100,000 tons?" One sentence blocked Sa Zhenbing's opposition back.

General Sa Zhenbing looked at Wang Zhenyu suspiciously: "Chairman, there is no joke in the army. ”

Wang Zhenyu said with a smile: "I can make a military order with Sa Lao, and if I can't reach it, I will go into the wilderness." ”

Sa Zhenbing weighed the benefits and disadvantages, and in the end, the interests of the country still prevailed over the interests of the small group of the navy in his brain: "Then as the chairman said, as long as I can see the revival of our navy, I will die without regrets." ”

Hearing Sa Zhenbing's words, Wang Zhenyu couldn't help but be in awe of this person, and the naval problem that he thought was very troublesome was actually solved. In addition to feeling the generalization, Wang Zhenyu suddenly asked himself, in terms of patriotism, is he better than Sa Zhenbing?

Before the end of the meeting, Sa Zhenbing suddenly got up and said: "Chairman of the committee, I have come this time on the Haiqi ship, the first ship of our Chinese Navy, and the officers and men on the ship implore the chairman to go and inspect it. ”

Wang Zhenyu thought about it, nodded and smiled: "Okay, I'll go!" ”

When the sun is rising, the river breeze is cool, Wuhan's newly built national wharf, all kinds of cargo ships are constantly coming in and out, and the newly installed tower cranes are also busy. At this time, Wuhan was a large construction site, and under the organization of Wang Zhenyu's fifth brother Wang Zhenbang, 100,000 migrant workers gathered in Wuhan to build an international metropolis.

The more than 100-meter-long Haiqi ship was very majestically parked near the national wharf at this moment, causing the originally busy dock workers to unconsciously stop their work and point at the huge warship, and the citizens passing by also stopped to watch. Wang Zhenyu's first feeling when he saw this big warship was that he had the desire to shop, as if he had seen a crazy 4S, wow, no wonder the grandsons of the Navy want to buy warships every day, this thing is so comfortable to look at.

The guards of the attendant office first boarded the ship for a safety check according to the old rules, and after confirming that there was no abnormality, Wang Zhenyu appeared.

The sailors were lined up along the boat gang in beautiful sailor suits, with their feet spread out, and they landed on the ground with one hand on their guns and placed one hand behind their backs, looking very energetic. When Wang Zhenyu stepped onto the deck, the commanding officer issued an order: "Salute." ”

All the sailors immediately stood upright, looked straight ahead, and raised their guns to Wang Zhenyu.

This Haiqi ship is one of the two large cruisers purchased by the Great Qing State after the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, and is known as the first ship of the Celestial Empire Navy. The ship cost 328242 pounds, has a displacement of 4,300 tons, a length of 132.3 meters (434 feet), a beam of 14.3 meters (46.8 feet), a draft of 6.1 meters, a maximum speed of 24 knots (24 knots), and a horsepower of 17,000 horsepower. The main armament of the Haiqi ship is 2 200mm naval guns, one bow and stern; 10 120mm naval guns, 5 on the left and right sides; 12 47mm guns, 5 on the left and right sides, 2 on the aft lower deck; 4 37mm naval guns. There are 7 torpedo tubes, and the torpedoes are British 533mm diameter white-headed torpedoes.

Hearing that the speed of such a big guy can reach 24 knots, Wang Zhenyu suddenly became interested, he remembered a data in World War II, it is said that the fastest warship in Japan at that time was the Yamato, with a speed of 27 knots, and the fastest on Shijie was the American battle cruiser Iowa, which could reach 33 knots.

"Sa Lao, I think the Navy's thinking needs to be changed, and we have only one imaginary enemy in the future, and that is Japan. However, if we want to confront the combined fleet of small Japan without the help of external forces, we will not be able to do it in any way. Therefore, we have to change our thinking, we have to be faster than him, and the speed of our warships in the future will reach a speed of 27 to 30 knots. And we have to take into account that Japan is an island country, and in many cases it is not necessary to play a decisive battle with them to attack him, and it is not better to attack his sea lines of communication and play to break diplomatic relations. He is an island country, there is no material input, I think he is enough to choke, in the powerful combined fleet, when the oil is used up, he can only lie on his stomach. ”

When Sa Zhenbing heard this, his eyes couldn't help but light up, and at this time, he was really convinced by Wang Zhenyu, a junior.

He immediately became very enthusiastic: "Chairman of the Committee, let me introduce you to a few colleagues in the Navy, they are all young talents of the younger generation of the Navy. ”

"Chairman of the Committee, this is Vice Minister Liu Guanxiong, and he is now the head of the Military Command Department of our Navy Department."

"Hello Chairman!" Liu Guanxiong is already in his early fifties, stocky, but still full of energy, and it is a very standard military salute to Wang Zhenyu. Wang Zhenyu returned a military salute, and then shook hands with Liu Guanxiong very warmly.

"Chairman of the committee, this is Vice Minister Cheng Biguang, the word is Hengqi, he and Vice Minister Liu are in the same year, a native of Xiangshan, Guangdong, and now the commander of the 1st Fleet, my idea is that he will be the commander of the 1st Training Fleet in the future, right?"

Wang Zhenyu listened to Sa Zhenbing's words to imply that the navy would no longer blindly reuse Fujianese, so he smiled secretly in his heart and nodded unified. Then he shook hands with Cheng Biguang, Cheng Biguang is also a character in history, but the ending is not good, let people assassinate, as for the main culprit There are also many versions, some say that Lu Rongting did it, and even say that Sun Yat-sen did it, God knows what the truth is?

But now that history has changed the face of this big butterfly beyond recognition, there is naturally no such thing as being assassinated.

"These two are the new talents of our navy, Chen Shaokuan, the word Houfu, the current captain of the Hairong; Chen Shiying, whose name is Jiliang, is currently the captain of the Jiang Heng. Wang Zhenyu looked at the two of them, they were still very young, and he knew that they were from Fujian, he smiled and shook hands with the two: "Do a good job!" ”

After stepping off the Haiqi, Wang Zhenyu also said to Sa Zhenbing and the other five people: "In my opinion, this training fleet is mainly based on cruisers, and the ships are based on standard ships like Haiqi, and my idea is not to engage in any new tactics, our navy is weak, and we will be pirates in the future war, and we will use the river defense fortress to block the mouth of the Yangtze River, and we will break the fleet at sea and pinch soft persimmons." The names of the ships have been changed, I mean they can be named after heroes in history, such as the Yue Fei or something, but these good names should be used on a good ship, and it would be a shame to sink as soon as they hit it. As for the ships of the broken fleet, I mean to name them after the names of places, Changsha, Hunan, Guangzhou, or whatever. It would be better if the ship still had to be built, but our shipbuilding industry would not be able to come out for a while. You can buy three more Haiqi class warships, but I have a request, including the current one, the power must be replaced, 24 knots is still too slow, at least 27 knots. I will first allocate 1 billion yuan to your navy, and you will pull up the shelves of this broken fleet, pay attention to secrecy, and I will send someone to form a military intelligence bureau of the Admiralty to be responsible for your intelligence and internal security work. ”

As soon as they visited the navy, the amount of 100 billion yuan came down, and these five people in the navy were not excited, knowing that the money allocated to the navy by the national government this year was only 40 million yuan, which was just enough to pay salaries and maintain the ships, and they could not even make up for the fuel used for training.

With such a large sum of money, and the three new Haiqi ships, what kind of separation, the coast guard, the navy does not care, not only does not care, but for the sake of the early arrival of the money. When I went to the UK to contact the shipyard and contact the shipyard, the person who presided over the reform was also seizing the time to race against time to carry out the reform, and I was not afraid of offending people, and I didn't talk about any fellow villagers. In short, a large number of old-fashioned officers who were on the older side, whose courage was gradually receding, and whose work style was bad were transferred to the coast guard of the Ministry of Public Security without hesitation during the current naval reform, and since then they have withdrawn from the navy and have begun to do the work of arresting smugglers and pirates. Subsequently, the navy recruited a large number of officers from Jiangsu, Hubei, Jiangxi, and Guangdong to study at the Nanjing Naval University, and the atmosphere of the entire navy was completely new.

In any case, after such a small review, the Nationalist Government's incomparably weak navy finally began to teeter. Fortunately, the British navy had been unemployed since the Battle of Jutland, and this naturally led to the shipyards being unemployed. As soon as the Chinese's order for three warships and an order for the modification of one ship arrived in the UK, it immediately injected a little vitality into the whole of Liverpool, because everyone had work to do. According to the agreement signed between the Admiralty and the British side on August 28, the fifth year of the Republic of China, the British side will deliver goods to the Chinese side before May of the seventh year of the Republic of China. The Admiralty of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government also did as good as the flow, naming these four Haiqi-class shipwrecks respectively: "Anjiang", "Wuhan", "Nanjing", and "Fujian".

Wang Zhenyu was very satisfied with the report handed over by the Admiralty, and he immediately instructed Ma Xicheng to include the Navy's 1 billion yuan in the budget and pay it all when the ship was delivered. As for the matter of naval aviation and marine divisions, there are not too many manpower now, so let's take it slowly, insert the Military Intelligence Bureau into it, and take back the personnel rights through the Naval University, Wang Zhenyu is already very satisfied.