Zhang Weixin handed over the fourth copy to Wang Kunjun and said: "This telegram is from the Military Department, and the eleventh person suggested that if the team's financial resources allow, they could consider starting to set up their own water liliang. ”

"Liliang on the water?" Wang Kunjun asked with some surprise, "Although I have a limited understanding of geography, I also know that the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun are located in the north, although there are some rivers here, but both the number of rivers and the scale of the rivers are limited, and there is no dense water web area in the south of the Yangtze River, let alone the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, which are not suitable for the development of water liliang at all." It's impossible for Eleven to be unaware of this situation, and it's unreasonable for them to submit such a suggestion? ”

Speaking of this, Wang Kunjun pondered for a while, and speculated as if he had an understanding: "This suggestion should not have been put forward by the Feiyu brothers with the eleventh, after all, the Feiyu brothers were in the navy before the crossing." Although he is now the staff officer of the 'Flying Dragon Army', the 'Flying Dragon Army' is only the army in the final analysis, and has nothing to do with the navy.

As far as I know, since the Feiyu brothers joined the team, although they have been working as staff officers in the military department and the 'Flying Dragon Army', he is an officer from the navy, and he did not have the right profession to work in the army halfway. Although he has worked very hard and worked very hard, and has been humbly asking Lao Eleven and others for advice, but as the saying goes, 'interlacing is like separating mountains', although the navy and the army are both armies, in addition to the queue and internal affairs requirements, whether it is basic training or tactical training, the gap between the two is quite large.

Therefore, although the Feiyu brothers have spent a lot of effort and hard work, it is impossible to reach the level of the eleventh and twenty-fourth in just over a year. In fact, don't talk about these two people, that is, the old twenty-six, who has been out of the army for several years, and the old thirty-five, who was just an ordinary soldier before the crossing, are stronger than the Feiyu brothers in terms of tactical thinking and combat quality. So I'm afraid he will have a feeling that he can't be used when he does it, and he will have a feeling of being marginalized. If the team can develop the so-called 'water liliang', then he will have a place to use as a professional. ”

Zhang Weixin nodded at first, then shook his head, and said, "Regarding Brother Feiyu's current feelings, what the fifth brother said is very appropriate. However, there is one thing that the fifth brother guessed wrong. According to the telegram from Lao Eleven, the proposal for the development of water liliang was not put forward by the Feiyu brothers, but several brothers from the military department learned that our 'Tanggu Salt Farm' has often been harassed by small groups of pirates recently, but because of the lack of necessary ships and sailors, these pirates who are just a rabble of pirates can only passively defend and repel the opponent's landing attack, but cannot take the initiative to attack and eradicate the opponent's foundation. In the long run, this will not only hinder the production of the salt works, but may also adversely affect the morale of the salt guards and the salt laders in the salt works.

Although protecting the salt works is the business of the Ministry of Security, the 'Flying Dragon Army', which is the most powerful and core weapon of the team, is not willing to sit idly by. So, they had the idea of building a water, or rather sea, combat liliang. The content of this proposal was mainly drafted by the eleventh, twenty-fourth, twenty-sixth, and the twelfth who was far away in the 'Kaifeng Detention Center', and the Feiyu brothers were just one of the professionals who provided some professional support for this proposal. Moreover, the naval leader recommended by them in the proposal was not the Feiyu brothers, but the old twelve. Of course, from the bottom of their hearts, the Feiyu brothers must have raised their hands in favor of this proposal. ”

After listening to Zhang Weixin's introduction, Wang Kunjun knew that he had taken it for granted just now, and his conclusions were too hasty. Therefore, he hurriedly calmed down and carefully read the telegram sent by the military department.

There is no discrepancy between what was written in the telegram and what Zhang Weixin introduced just now, Qian Yuanshan and other brothers in the military department were indeed motivated by the repeated attacks and disturbances of the "Tanggu Salt Works" by small groups of pirates, while they felt very depressed because they had no ships and sailors and could only react passively, and thus thought that although the "Flying Dragon Army" was strong and heroic, and had weapons and equipment and strategies and tactics far beyond this era, these could only be deployed on land. Once it reaches the water, the land tiger of the "Flying Dragon Army" will lose its foundation, and its strength will certainly be greatly affected -- not to mention that the seasickness alone will greatly reduce the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the "Flying Dragon Army." ,

Therefore, Qian Yuanshan and others hoped that on the premise of not affecting the existing strength of the "Flying Dragon Army," they would build up an armed force capable of fighting on the water, so that the "Flying Dragon Army" would be more perfect -- if the "Flying Dragon Army" did not even dare to go into the water, how could it be worthy of the word "Flying Dragon"?

Although the proposal of Qian Yuanshan and others is well written, the content about training jihua, shipbuilding jihua and other aspects is also included, which can be said to be perfect. However, for Wang Kunjun, now the team is rapidly expanding its shili, whether it is to expand the "Flying Dragon Army", or to arrange eyeliner and secret agents in the entire Youdu Mansion and even Nanjing Road, it will cost a lot of money.

However, just when Wang Kunjun was about to veto this proposal, the role of Qian Yuanshan and others in the proposal in forming a maritime combat liliang made him immediately change this decision -- Qian Yuanshan and others proposed in the proposal that the formation of a maritime combat liliang can not only safeguard the coastal and maritime interests of the crossing team, but also flexibly use this liliang when necessary, and transport the "Flying Dragon Army" to any place along the coast by sea. Strike from an unexpected direction and inflict a blow on the enemy.

The reason why this proposal was able to impress Wang Kunjun was that in this era when everyone usually did not pay attention to the sea liliang, the long coastline could almost be called completely undefended, and the side with the sea battle liliang would be able to open up a landing point for its own troops at any point of this coastline, so that their own troops could attack and harass as they wanted, and even attack in a big way, while the other side had no choice but passive defense. This point is likely to give it unexpected help to the "Flying Dragon Army", which will face the Battle of Youzhou in the near future-not to mention that Qian Yuanshan and others also mentioned the construction of the Marine Corps in their proposal, which is a powerful Liliang that can directly carry out sea to land operations.

The possible help of the naval operation Liliang to the battle of Youzhou made Wang Kunjun change his original intention, decided to support this proposal of the Ministry of Military Affairs, and determined to pull out funds as much as possible to support the construction of the naval operation Liliang when the team's finances can afford it, and strive to be able to come in handy when the battle of Youzhou comes. But for the crossing team, what is most needed now is not a naval fleet that can dominate the whole Shijie, but a transport fleet that can send the "Flying Dragon Army" to any location along the coast of the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, which is possible in a short period of time.

Wang Kunjun, who had made up his mind, immediately told Zhang Weixin about his thoughts, and Zhang Weixin was also very much in favor of this -- although he did not know much about military affairs as a liberal arts student, he still had some understanding of the role of a strong navy in a country, so he absolutely supported Wang Kunjun's decision.

After reaching an agreement on the proposal of the Ministry of Military Affairs on the establishment of a maritime combat liliang, the matter that Zhang Weixin wanted to discuss with Wang Kunjun came to an end. After reading all four pieces of news carefully and writing his opinions on them, Wang Kunjun returned the four copies of the notes to Zhang Weixin.

After Zhang Weixin took the notebook, he left the small conference room, and he first reorganized the three issues that he had just discussed with Wang Kunjun, such as the issue of Gao Jun's position, the issue of expanding the production capacity of weapons, and the preparation for the establishment of a maritime combat liliang, and formed three formal proposals, plus Wang Kunjun and his own opinions were sent to Li Junwu and Yang Xin through the radio to solicit their opinions -- whether it was necessary to solicit the opinions of Xu Shao'an, who was far away in the "Kaifeng Detention Center," was decided by Yang Xin. And directly contacted Xu Shaoan through the radio station set up in the "Jingyuan", and the "Qingyuan" side would not interfere too much.

Some time after the telegram was sent, Li Junwu and Yang Xin sent a call back. In the telegram, they expressed their support in principle for all three proposals. With the support of Li Junwu and Yang Xin, it means that these three proposals have been adopted in the committee.

Based on past experience, proposals approved by the Committee are usually successfully adopted at the enlarged session of the Committee, which was again verified at the enlarged meeting of the Committee held on September 29 of the lunar calendar of the seventh year of the corresponding calendar, and the three proposals submitted by Zhang Weixin, Li Junwu and Qian Yuanshan to the enlarged meeting were all adopted. ,

The implementation of the three proposals is naturally fast and slow, and the slowest of them is naturally the establishment of maritime operations.

Because it involves the establishment of maritime warfare, this proposal is also known as the "Navy Proposal".

According to the proposal, the construction of the maritime combat Liliang will be carried out in three steps:

The first step is to spend one to two years building a transport fleet capable of transporting 3,000 people to land anywhere in the Bohai Rim to support the upcoming Battle of Youzhou.

The second step is to spend 10 years or more to build a nearshore navy capable of transporting 3,000 troops to land at any coastal point in China and providing some fire support for the landing force.

The third step is to spend 20 years or more to build a real ocean-going fleet.

In addition, according to the proposal made by Qian Yuanshan and others, the "Flying Dragon Army" will set up a professional marine corps -- the number of this unit does not need to be too large, and at this stage it will be controlled in a battalion, that is, about 6 or 700 people.

It takes much less time to set up a new industrial production base than it can take ten or twenty years, or even longer, to build an offshore liliang. According to the plan put forward by Li Junwu on behalf of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the new industrial production base will be built on a piece of flat land not far from the "Xianglong Fort". For the sake of safety and secrecy, the new base will still be built into a fortress-like fortress like "Liangyuan", but its scale and production capacity will be about 50% larger than the old base of "Liangyuan".

Since it is only an industrial production base, and there is no arrangement for a large number of people to live in it, except for craftsmen and security personnel, the new production base does not have a large number of residences like "Liangyuan", and does not have a similar name for the residence, but is simply called the new industrial area.

Also because it is only an industrial production base, the new industrial zone in addition to the fence, watchtower and other defense facilities are very high requirements, its internal factories, warehouses, accommodation areas and other buildings on the basis of ensuring safety, there is no requirement to be meticulously crafted, so although the area is large, but its construction time is not long, is expected to be completed and put into operation within half a year.

Of the three proposals, the shortest time for implementation is the work and study arrangements for Gao Jun and some of the students in the reserve Liliang training class, and it is estimated that the proposal will be completed within three or five days from the adoption of the proposal to the final implementation of the proposal.