Huang Ke has been talking to Jiang Baili about building a defense line during this time. Jiang Baili said clearly, "Between China and Japan, no matter whether they win or lose, they are different, and make peace with him!" ”

Huang Ke deeply thought of this, he and Jiang Baili were keenly aware of the impending crisis, of course, he was able to recognize not because he was smart, but because he had already understood the laws of development from history.

Sitting on the soft ordinary fabric sofa in the Minister of Defense's office, Huang Ke crossed his legs and smoked a cigar, discussing with Jiang Baili about the next further plans, Jiang Baili coughed a few times, Huang Ke decisively snuffed out the cigar.

Jiang Baili nodded with satisfaction, he knew that although Huang Ke smoked, in public places, especially in a closed environment where someone was there, as long as that person didn't smoke, he would generally not smoke.

Snuffing out the cigar cigarette, Huang Ke played with a pen in his hand, he leaned back on the sofa cushion and said: "To be honest, although the Wehrmacht has established a lot of mechanized troops in recent years, and its combat effectiveness has reached the level of a medium military power, it is only limited to the army. Compared with the army, the development of the air force is lagging behind, and the navy is even lagging behind. ”

Jiang Baili agreed with his statement, and said: "Although the air force is inferior, according to the current point of view, the thousands of fighters of the air force can still guarantee relative air supremacy in China's territorial airspace, but it is difficult for the navy to guarantee it." Our largest ships are destroyers, and the navy has a total of 72 surface ships with a total displacement of less than 100,000 tons, which is probably not as good as a small squadron of the Japanese navy. ”

"The navy is technically demanding, and it costs a lot of money, and it is not an overnight thing. It took decades and countless real money to build the three major naval divisions in the former Qing Dynasty, but in the end they still trained a dilapidated and vulnerable navy. There is still a long way to go for the Navy to be built strong! ”

Jiang Baili said these are the big truths, and Huang Ke naturally knows that if China is given another ten years, China's development will definitely be recognized by the world, and its military and national strength will definitely be able to compete with Japan, but now it is difficult to ensure that it is outside the enemy's borders.

Fighting the enemy on your own territory is a frustrating and painful thing!

"It's hard for Brother Shao Kuan." Huang Ke thought for a moment and said, "How is the construction of our shore artillery unit?" ”

Jiang Baili immediately understood what Huang Ke meant, and he raised his spirit and said: "The situation of the construction of the navy's shore artillery unit is not ideal, because his main development goal is on ships. However, you said that this trick can be tried, the cost of shore artillery is low, the construction period is short, and it can form combat effectiveness in a short time. In addition, our country can now produce large-caliber artillery on its own, which can be satisfied in this regard, and there is still a huge artillery force in the army, which can be pulled over and used at any time. ”

After saying so many advantages, Huang Ke knew it, and he smiled and said: "In this way, in a few days, the two of us will bring these things to the regular meeting of the Ministry of Defense for discussion." It is still easy to transfer a few artillery divisions from the army, and if they are not willing to move, I think it will be up to the troops in which theater of operations are responsible for which sea area. ”

"Without further ado, I think we'll strike while the iron is hot." As he spoke, Jiang Baili asked his attendant to fetch a large-scale map of the coastline.

"Let's now calculate how many shore artillery guns are needed in the country, let's demarcate the key areas, and come up with a plan tomorrow."

In a few moments, the attendant brought over a large-scale map of the coastline. Huang Ke glanced at this attendant officer, this person was tall and handsome, as if he had seen it somewhere? His appearance is somewhat similar to Dai Jitao, a veteran of the Kuomintang, could it be......

"Brother Baili, this young man is ......," Huang Ke asked suspiciously.

Jiang Baili glanced at the attendant officer, patted his head and suddenly said: "Haha, Brother Huang has good eyesight, this attendant officer is Jiang Zhongzheng's youngest son-Jiang Weiguo." ”

As he spoke, he pointed to Jiang Weiguo and said, "Weiguo, come and meet your Uncle Huang." ”

Jiang Weiguo snapped after hearing this: "Hello Minister Huang!" ”

Huang Ke punched him in the chest and said, "Okay! I have long heard that Brother Zhongzheng has two tigers, and today I see that it is really worthy of its name, the boss I have seen once, radical thinking but clear thinking, with clear goals and unique opinions, you are even more extraordinary, to be able to deign to start from a small attendant officer, it means that it is a material that can be made. What do you think? The son of the Minister of War came to be a small attendant officer, don't you feel condescending? ”

Jiang Weiguo smiled honestly and said: "Where, it is my blessing to be able to be the chief of the general staff as an attendant officer. When I was a child, I heard about the heroic deeds of Minister Huang and Chief of Staff Chiang during the Northern Expedition, and I admired them for a long time since I was a child. My father also often taught us that there are two generals Huang and Jiang in the Chinese military today, and I can serve tea and pour water in front of the two elders, which also has a great role in promoting my growth, and I am honored! ”

Huang Ke and Jiang Baili laughed after a while, and Huang Ke said to Jiang Baili half-jokingly: "No wonder Brother Zhongzheng didn't even hold an executive meeting, and he wanted to run for the chairman of the state government, and he didn't want to mix in the army." It turned out that he lifted us up and compared ourselves to ourselves! Ha ha. ”

Jiang Weiguo also echoed and smiled, although he was only in his 20s, he also knew that his father and Huang Ke were not harmonious, and the two sides had many differences in political views, and the Xiguan faction represented by Huang Ke and the Kuomintang faction represented by Wang Jingwei and Jiang Zhongzheng had always been fighting openly and secretly, and the relationship between the two sides was harmonious on the surface, but in fact there was an undercurrent.

But the more this situation is, the more you can't say anything, because his father has gone the other way by this time.

Not long ago, his father and Wang Jingwei, chairman of the state government, also had a lot of contradictions, and later Jiang Zhongzheng simply started the election of the chairman of the state government to compete with Wang Jingwei.

It seems that Huang Ke has known about this matter not long after he came back, and it seems that his father is really going to part ways with Wang Jingwei's faction.

Huang Ke saw Jiang Weiguo's embarrassment, he didn't continue, and asked some things about him personally, Jiang Weiguo also saw that the two were going to talk about military affairs, like his level, he was not qualified to audit, so after a short conversation with Huang Ke, he said very interestingly that he had gone down beforehand.

Huang Ke and Jiang Baili spread out the map, the two took off their shoes and measured the map, measuring the long coastline, they made a rough plan for the areas where the shore guns were set up, compared them one by one, deduced, and when the map was marked, the sky was already bright.

On the second day, the staff officers of the military staff drew up a detailed list based on the shore artillery construction plan made by the two men. When all this was worked out, the Standing Committee of the Ministry of National Defense was convened, and because it was an internal adjustment of the military, the central government and the cabinet only sent observers.

Navy Minister Chen Shaokuan, Army Minister Chiang Chung-cheng, Air Force Minister Xu Shaozhou, and commanders of major theaters were all present. As previously expected, there was no objection to the matter, except for some disagreement over which artillery units to be assigned to. After all, none of the generals of the War Department wanted the artillery under their command to be transferred to the navy.

However, the Military Commission is not a democratic voting system, and Huang Ke and several ministers made a decision after discussion. Specifically, each theater must draw an artillery division, and the artillery division must also be a division of the first type of army group army.

This paternalistic decision made many generals of the War Department quite dissatisfied, and as soon as the decision was made, the following was talked about in a calamity.

"Our southeastern theater is facing Taiwan, and the firepower of the troops to which we belong is not as good as that of other theaters, and the transfer of another artillery division is equivalent to stucking our necks, and we will not be able to recover in a short time."

"That's right, our Northwest Theater is still holding Lao Maozi, the Soviet Red Army's degree of mechanization is no worse than ours, and fighting in the Great Northwest relies on firepower."

"All of them are allocated to the navy, what else will our army use to fight?"

"The navy's annual military investment is not less than ours, and we have worked hard to save some family foundation, so it's good that we all give them a dowry."

……

The voices in the venue were getting louder and louder, and several of Huang Ke's old subordinates even wanted to stand up and openly oppose it many times, but looking at Huang Ke's serious face, they were all deflated again.

Huang Ke sat on the rostrum and watched the generals of the army complain, and Chen Shaokuan looked at him with a wry smile. After a few minutes, the voice gradually became quieter, Huang Ke picked up the teacup in front of him and took a sip and said, "Is it enough?" I'll say a couple of words when that's enough. ”

"Commander, don't you know that my team is inferior to other theaters of war in terms of firepower, and now I have to transfer a Class A artillery division, isn't this equivalent to breaking my arm?" The old subordinate Cui Wu said indignantly, and Du Yuming, Xue Boling and others also echoed.

Among the many high-ranking generals, only General Batu from the Mongolian region was silent.

Because before this meeting, Huang Ke had already told him that your troops may have to be smaller than the size, and the cavalry will not be the focus of development in the future.

When he heard the news, Batu seemed to feel that it was dark in front of him. He had previously started as a fierce cavalry division, and had gone deep behind enemy lines to recover Mongolia, but now with the spread of mechanization, his proud cavalry army was in danger of being reduced, so he wanted to keep the whole formation and go to the navy like other troops.

It's a pity that the cavalry can no longer dominate the steppe, let alone go to the sea?

and Battubi, they were lucky; Compared with the cavalry, the artillery was lucky!

Huang Ke didn't notice Batu's expression, he looked at the group of generals in front of him who were not the overall situation, and suddenly a nameless fire burst out. He snapped the teacup in his hand and placed it on the table, and the audience fell silent after a muffled sound.

"Is that enough? Who hasn't said enough to stand up and say? Huang Ke asked, angrily asked, but no one answered.

"What are you? Are you warlords? Are these troops your private soldiers? ”

"Don't forget, you are the Chinese Defense Forces! The Defence Force is all about defending national sovereignty and territorial integrity. Now that the overall situation requires it, can't you send a few troops to support the navy? Where is the oath you made under the military flag? Feed the dogs! ”

Huang Ke's voice continued to echo in the conference room, and the venue was still silent.

"The content of the meeting will not be changed, and all opinions will be reserved. This is not a consultation with you, this is a military order issued by the Military Council of the Ministry of Defense! ”

After speaking, Huang Ke waved his hand and left with a wave of "dismissal", and the generals present immediately understood that this was a military order, and if they did not obey, they had to obey it.

But they would not have imagined at this time that a few years later, in the battle of quick death between China and Japan, it was the shore artillery unit composed of these drawn artillery units that made the Japanese naval landing force suffer terribly, and their artillery group was the last line of defense in the 10,000-mile sea frontier.