The central government's thinking is still based on airplanes, speedboats, and more than 30 Soviet-Japanese submarines, plus a small number of coastal defense ships of the former Japanese army as capital ships. The development of the entire navy should still follow a gradual process. Ships such as large cruisers are currently neither capable of repairing nor capable of maintaining the ability to sail. To put it bluntly, I just can't afford to feed it.

However, Yang Zhen's intention was to mainly focus on the personnel who returned from the Soviet Union, plus Japanese naval instructors and technicians, and first set up command and technical academies. Expansion of production capacity at Dalian Shipyard and Huludao Shipyard with Japanese equipment, as well as construction of two new marine engine production plants.

Get these ships up and running as soon as possible. Large ships were still mothballed first, and those with war injuries were first repaired at the two shipyards in Lushun and Huludao, mainly by Japanese technicians. And in Jinan, using Japanese technology and equipment, a new diesel engine production plant was built, specializing in the production of various high-power diesel engines.

After several discussions, the central government finally approved Yang Zhen's proposal. However, the commander of the navy, the chairman still refused Yang Zhen's request to send another person, insisting that Yang Zhen be in charge of this matter. In the words of the chairman, since you guy has poked a hole in the sky, then this ass is still wiped by himself.

Don't bother the two masters, this matter is decided first, and other issues will be discussed later. The chairman was half ridiculing, and half expressing some dissatisfaction with Yang Zhen's action. and actually made a statement of support, so that Yang Zhen could only touch his nose and admit it.

After returning to Northeast China, Yang Zhen successively set up a series of naval military academies and built a large marine steam turbine production plant in Shenyang, mainly the Japanese naval instructors who had been invited back. As for the Navy Command, it was actually the General Headquarters of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, which had actually become a rotational training base for the whole army at this time. Li Mingfeng served as the first deputy commander of the Anti-Japanese Navy, responsible for the specific formation of the navy.

In accordance with Yang Zhen's request, most of the large ships should be mothballed, and the first thing to do is to organize and train the submarine force, so as to form the submarine force into combat effectiveness as soon as possible. Coastal defense ships in good condition should also form combat effectiveness as soon as possible. Light warships such as torpedo boats, minesweepers, and submarine hunters should also seize the time to carry out overhauls.

For the replacement of weapons, a unified plan is developed. For all ships that can be used immediately, the replacement of anti-aircraft artillery fire should be carried out gradually. The original Japanese-made 25-mm anti-aircraft guns with inferior performance were all replaced with 37 anti-aircraft guns produced by the Anti-Japanese Federation itself, or double-23 anti-aircraft guns.

The Japanese-made anti-aircraft machine gun was also replaced with a 14-mm anti-aircraft machine gun manufactured by the Anti-Japanese Federation itself. In order to reduce the caliber, all Soviet-made 130 naval guns were replaced with Japanese-made 127 naval guns. Although the caliber has been reduced a little, and the range is slightly closer. However, compared with the Soviet-made naval guns, which did not have an satisfactory rate of fire, the specially developed Japanese-made 127 naval guns had better comprehensive performance.

Yang Zhen's attitude is still to unify all the caliber of naval guns of medium-sized ships as much as possible. The caliber of small-caliber anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns was also fully unified. The Japanese-made 450-mm torpedo launchers of the torpedo boats were replaced by German-made 533-mm torpedoes.

After all-out efforts to repair and reorganize, by the time the civil war broke out in the first half of '46, a navy of no small scale appeared on the western Pacific coast of Asia. More than a dozen Soviet-made and Japanese-made destroyers and coastal defense ships, more than 50 Japanese-made and German-made torpedo boats, nine Japanese-made submarine destroyers, and 11 sea-sweeping boats formed the First Fleet, which has begun to cruise.

The most important Japanese-style landing ships were completely renovated in the shortest possible time and put into use on the front line. Although these Japanese-style landing ships have a large performance gap compared with various mechanized landing ships of the US military. But again, something is better than nothing.

With the progress of the Liberation War and the completion of repairs of a large number of war-damaged ships, more ships have been transferred to service. By the time of the founding of New China, the navy had six Japanese-made and Soviet-made heavy cruisers, 11 light cruisers, and more than 70 destroyers and coastal defense ships.

More than a hundred minesweepers, submarine hunters, landing ships, as well as more than a hundred Japanese, German, and Soviet torpedo boats, as well as Chinese own imitation torpedo boats, more than thirty submarines, and a large number of tugboats, supply ships and transport ships of the navy. Although this navy cannot be compared with the US Navy, its strength in Asia is definitely the first.

Although the coastal defense ships that served as the main force among them, they only took on escort and patrol missions in the Japanese Navy. However, these coastal defense ships are large in number and generally not very old, so in the early days of the Chinese Navy, these ships, along with destroyers of less than 2,000 tons, were all converted into frigates, and they were always used as the main ships.

Before the founding of New China, the new Chinese navy, which used Japanese-made survey ships, also completed a comprehensive survey and mapping of China's three major open seas with the Japanese navy's surveying and mapping data along China's coastal areas, thus ensuring control over the Diaoyu Islands and the main islands in the South China Sea. In addition, a large number of air forces transferred from the air force have completely changed the situation in which old China had no defense at sea.

Some of the destroyers and coastal defense ships brought back from Singapore and the Japanese mainland were dismantled for scrap steel because they were too damaged in the war and were no longer repaired. Some of the destroyers that were too old and difficult to repair and maintain, as well as some of the coastal defense ships that were hastily built in the late Japanese war and were of too poor quality, were also partially disassembled for scrap.

Compared with those coastal defense ships that are too old or because of the lack of raw materials in the later period, the quality of the construction is relatively inferior. Yang Zhen paid more attention to the minesweepers and submarine hunters of the Japanese army at all levels, and as long as these ships could be repaired, almost all of them were put into front-line service.

The hundred-year-old navy is not just talking about it, it is about groping from scratch little by little. Fortunately, Yang Zhen sent people to the Soviet Union to study the navy in advance, and as soon as the war began, he invited all the instructors of the Japanese naval school back to form a complete naval education system. For the development of the Navy, a steady stream of technical support has been provided.

In particular, those Japanese-made submarines have played a significant role in China's establishment of its own deterrent forces. The Japanese Navy has not only its own submarines, but also several German-made submarines. The performance of these submarines, at least in the post-war years, was still in a leading position.

At the same time as building his own navy, Yang Zhen also provided four Japanese-made destroyers, eight coastal defense ships, and a number of speedboats for the newly formed DPRK navy on the orders of the central authorities. To the newly established North Korean government, in addition to the fact that the aircraft were made in the Northeast, an all-Japanese navy was formed.

The only setback was that a large number of wartime-built warships of the United States and Britain in the post-war world were retired and entered the international naval ship market. Yang Zhen also sent people through Hong Kong to buy back a batch of American-made landing ships, as well as British-made frigates and other light ships that China urgently needs. But Yang Zhen's attempt to sell surplus Japanese coastal defense ships was unsuccessful.

The curtain of the Cold War has fallen, and countries are hugging their thighs or standing in line. However, the sale or assistance of a large number of decommissioned US and British warships has created an unsatisfactory international arms market. Moreover, the performance of the ships of the United States and Britain is much better than that of these ships hastily built by the Japanese Navy at the end of the war, and the source of accessories is more guaranteed.

Moreover, although a large number of British and French colonies became independent after the war, few of these countries had money. As a result, it took a lot of effort and chose the method of bartering, and Yang Zhen sold five Japanese destroyers, 11 Japanese coastal defense ships, and a number of gunboats and torpedo boats made by himself.

On the contrary, a large number of Japanese-made light weapons and Japanese-made artillery captured during the war were sold in large quantities. These trophies, which the Chinese no longer used, exchanged a large amount of supplies for China during the civil war. In particular, the raw materials that are urgently needed for industrial construction and are not available in the base areas, as well as rubber from Southeast Asia, are the most critical is capital.

A large number of weapons left behind after the remnants of the North Korean army were disarmed were sold by Yang Zhen by various means as soon as the North Korean army surrendered to the Anti-Japanese Union. Yang Zhen even adopted the somewhat unreliable method of collecting deposits from certain forces in Southeast Asia before disarming the Japanese army.

Although the central government did not approve of Yang Zhen becoming an arms dealer, in the face of the urgent need for funds for industrial construction and the blockade of the United States, the central government finally agreed to Yang Zhen's approach.

All of a sudden, a large number of Japanese-made light and heavy weapons appeared in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, causing the European suzerains that were originally trying to restore their colonial rule to constantly protest to the Americans who were responsible for destroying Japanese weapons. Faced with this situation, the Americans can only stare dryly.

And those former colonial rebels who faced repression in Western countries and were desperately short of anti-tank weapons and anti-aircraft weapons were in great demand for weapons. Yang Zhen adopted the method of bartering, and sold the loot not only obtained a large number of urgently needed materials and funds, but also made a lot of friends.

It's just that the Japanese have just recovered a little from the post-war difficulties. Look at the ships made by themselves, driving in the seas under the guidance of the Chinese. The newly established Coast Guard can only rely on a few old ships handed out by the Americans, and it can be said that there are mixed feelings in my heart.

However, what the Japanese are thinking at this moment is not something that Yang Zhen can consider. He wanted not only the remnants of the Japanese Navy, but also the equipment in the Japanese factories. After handing over the battleship Nagato and the aircraft carrier Katsuragi to the Soviets and blocking the Soviets' mouths, Yang Zhen still focused on Japan.

At the same time that Yang Zhen carried out the forced demolition of the entire Japanese mainland, the domestic situation was also constantly changing. Chongqing negotiated an agreement, but it is still a piece of waste paper. However, although the civil war was still not avoided, the time of its outbreak was postponed for more than half a year due to the comparison of strengths, and it was not until the end of April or 6 that it broke out in full force.

During this civil war, which lasted less than three years, Yang Zhen basically stayed in the northeast. First, at that time, the Northeast was at a critical moment of construction, and it was not suitable for Yang Zhen, the helmsman, to be transferred. Second, from the perspective of cultivating more talents suitable for modern war command, the central government still let Yang Zhen stay in the northeast.