283 Navy Division

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Outside the naval pier in the Ryukyu port area, shouts and cheers were endless, thousands of sailors surrounded the large playground, and the two groups of blue and white players in the middle were playing footballs, and as the football drew an arc and flew into the goal, the sailors who supported the blue team all shouted, while the white group cursed and said that it didn't matter.

This craze immediately attracted Chen Ping and Li Mo, who had just gotten off the boat, and dragged Fang Xianqi to the cheers of everyone.

"Young Master, Chief of Staff."

"Young master, hello Chief of Staff."

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Seeing the three of them, everyone divided their paths, and some of them were ready to salute, so frightened that Li Mo hurriedly made a silent gesture, so that everyone didn't make a noise so as not to miss the show.

Because the attention of all sides was focused on the field, and he was in the excited shouting after the goal, Li Mo's appearance only caused a small number of people to be restless, and he stopped being restless after stopping it.

"Brother Li, is this what you said about football?"

Fang Xianqi was the first time to see this kind of game, looking at the large group of men chasing a leather ball in the field, she only felt very funny, it happened that at this time, a team member was kicked and slipped to the point that someone fell on her back, she was laughing and leaned back, but she seemed to feel that this was very indecent, and quickly covered her mouth.

The startled little child almost made Li Mo forget to watch the game, and quietly pinched Fang Xianqi's little hand with his right hand, and began to explain the rules of football for her.

Being pinched in front of so many people, Fang Xianqi's pretty face turned red, she glanced at Li Mo with disgust, and snuggled up to him obediently while listening to him explain the rules of football, and at the same time, she couldn't help but feel very curious that Li Mo could remember this kind of play so proficiently.

The big flickering eyes almost made Master Li distracted, but fortunately, Chen Ping's laughing and scolding voice came from this time: "I knew that it must be these little ones messing around."

Li Mo finally saw clearly the two groups of people in the center of the field, on one side was the Determination sailors led by Liu Haitao, and on the other side was the tenacity team members led by Gu Junhuo, and on the edge of the field, Lin Tianping and Dong Fei were also preparing for the competition with their sailors.

As early as the beginning of the formation of the army in Hawaii, Li Mo sent many officers to Britain and Germany for short-term training, so this sport was also brought back by these captains and officers, it was originally only a small number of people to play, but as more and more soldiers and officers fell in love with this sport, plus football can also increase the cohesion between comrades-in-arms and enhance physical fitness, so it is very popular in the army.

Since the first ship of the Determination class was about to be decommissioned in battle, and the other three were happily driven away by the Spaniards, the sailors on the four heavy cruisers who had lost their beloved battleship were all engaged in ground training, and had a lot of time to play football and dissipate.

In addition to the sailors on these four warships, Li Mo also saw that Liu Buchan, Sa Zhenbing and other officers also brought their own sailors, cheering and cheering, and whistling and laughing at each other from time to time, the atmosphere was more lively than the festival. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

In addition to a few warships patrolling, the fleet is currently in a state of recuperation, and the port of Ryukyu after the war has been full of warships waiting to be maintained and maintained, and even the Honolulu shipyard has accepted four Jinghai-class light cruisers and two Arctic-star battleships waiting for maintenance.

As for the six major docks of the Ryukyu Shipyard, they were all packed, and except for the two keels of the two Yasukai-class light cruisers, the other four docks had been filled with captured Japanese battleships.

In addition to repair, they will also be replaced with barreled guns, and radio and other modifications, because these four ships have just been launched for less than a year, and similar to the Duke class, the displacement is only a few hundred tons larger, so the General Staff did not separate the classification after consideration, but all were included in the Duke class.

Although there are no four heavy cruisers, but the addition of the four Duke class has made the naval combat effectiveness not rise but fall, plus the Jinghai class has been proved to have no problem with the design after actual combat, and the expected effect has been achieved, so before Japan surrendered, the last four have been laid in Honolulu and Ryukyu shipyards at the same time.

Due to the increasing number of skilled shipwrights, and the fact that this is the second batch, Tang Xiao guarantees that the four Jinghai-class ships will be delivered within one and a half years, which means that before the turn of the century, the navy will have a huge formation of ten battleships, four heavy cruisers and eight light cruisers.

Although the 22 are all 10,000-ton or quasi-10,000-ton warships, but the eight Jinghai-class are only light cruisers, and it has been confirmed in this war that the best use of 152 mm naval guns is to ensure the perimeter security of capital ships and ground support, and as it is exposed to the sight of various countries, similar or counter-type warships will appear, so their future is not to intervene in fierce artillery battles between the main forces, but to use its large range and high speed, like the all-rounder of sea rangers.

So the main ships of the Navy are still fourteen.

The six Duke-class battleships will be more powerful than they are now after refitting, especially after the naval guns that adopt the tube retreat technology, so they can still guarantee sea superiority for a while, but the four Polar stars are already a little old.

Compared with the Polar Star battleships, the four heavy cruisers are more headaches, whether it is the Chesma, Sinop, or two Russian-made heavy cruisers, they are already old warships that have been launched for more than ten years, the hull is very serious, and it is difficult to convert them into heavy cruisers, and the unique triple assembly technology and the distance of naval warfare that are pulled farther and farther away by themselves will make it difficult for them to move forward in future operations.

And these are not the tricky things for Li Mo to rush, he is currently upset that he is greedy and greedy, after swallowing Luzon, Micronesia and the Marshall Islands in one bite, the sea territory that the navy needs to defend has expanded at least ten times, which makes the navy urgently need a small warship with low price, low cost of use, and a certain cruising range.

To put it simply, it's about being able to afford it.

At present, in the navy, except for the four surveyor-class light cruisers in the middle, there are either tens of thousands of tons or several hundred tons of destroyers, which are large and small, and their configuration is very unreasonable.

In addition to all this, Li Mo also hoped that this kind of warship, which is used for patrolling, protecting shipping lanes, and swearing sovereignty in peacetime, must also have a certain combat effectiveness and the ability to accompany the main force in action.

From the current point of view, a second-class armored cruiser of two or three thousand tons similar to various countries is a good choice, but he still feels that it is too expensive, and a second-class armored cruiser will cost at least about 150,000 pounds, so he tends to enlarge the current destroyer.

In this war against Japan, the navy has taken out almost all the things that it has to watch, except for some secrets such as steam turbines, radios, submarines, torpedoes, and so on, everything else has basically been revealed to the world, especially the appearance of the knapsack turret, which will certainly enable all countries to discover the representative characteristics of this dreadnought ship at an early stage, and how to adopt the technology that is still secret at present, and how to use a small amount of capable equipment to deter the opponent is a good way to use the technology that is still secret at present and the ability to use a small amount of capable equipment to deter the opponent when the overall strength is inferior to the opponent.

You must know that Nicholas II is still sharpening his sword and waiting for revenge, although he does not think that Russia is capable of making forty capital ships, but more than twenty is the minimum.

It must be stupid to fight the capital ship, with their own exposure of so many technologies, a round of ship-building in Europe and the United States will definitely come again, maybe at this moment some countries have begun to study the triple assembly technology and how to improve the rate of fire of naval guns, and wait until they study the results, even if they can't take out the dreadnought for a while, the prototype will definitely appear, so at this moment to continue to build the former dreadnought, it is better to directly use steel to build the railway, anyway, it will be dismantled in the future.

But dreadnoughts are not so easy to build, at least after giving the idea to McKinson, the ship design team, which has grown to more than 500 people, is still at a loss, so it is still necessary to rely on existing equipment to find ways to improve combat capability.

"Brother Li, it's all over, what are you still thinking?" Seeing Li Mo staring at the court in a daze, Fang Xianqi quietly pulled it. When he woke up, he found that several captains had already walked over, so he had to temporarily relax and greet him.

Ryukyu is different from Lushun, since the Japanese here were expelled, a large number of immigrants from the interior of the Qing Dynasty made this large island completely a Chinese world, coupled with the adoption of an equal policy and the Ryukyu locals have regarded the Chinese as compatriots since ancient times, so this place and Ogasawara Islands, Honolulu are listed as a place that he called safe and allows him to move freely, and every time he comes here, he can walk around comfortably.

In order to enjoy this rare leisure, after settling Fang Xianqi, Li Mo chose to walk to the Navy Building, although there were still several guards scattered to follow, and Du Dazhuang also followed with two people, but it was much better than hugging him as soon as he went out in Lushun.

It was already evening, and the street lamps on both sides of the road began to light up, and after a while, it seemed that the whole bay was bright, and countless workers on the wharf were moving and unloading goods, ships were coming and going, and the surrounding factories were in a constant hustle and bustle, and the whole of Ryukyu was changing little by little in this noise.

Compared with Oahu, due to its proximity to the mainland and the convenience of material exchanges, the Government Council has not relocated too many factories, so the bustle here has not been decayed due to the great shift in manufacturing, but has become more and more busy.

After a while, Li Mo came to the Navy Building located in the north of the port area, and after walking into the building, he found that Chen Ping, Long Guozhang and Tan Xiaozeng had been waiting for him for a long time, and hurriedly exchanged a few words of greeting to get to the point.

He came to Ryukyu this time, in addition to talking to McKinson and Tang Xiao about building a destroyer, because of another very important thing, that is.

It's time for the Navy to break up.

Chen Ping got straight to the point and came up with the opinion of the General Staff Officer, according to the proposal, the navy will be divided into two parts from the current Pacific Fleet, with the internal numbers of the First and Second Fleets respectively.

The First Fleet is naturally the Pacific Fleet, with four Arctic-star, four Duke-class and two heavy cruisers as the team, with two small light cruisers and six destroyers as the team, and Honolulu, Ryukyu, Hakodate, and Arthur as the bases.

The Second Fleet is known as the South Seas Fleet, with Luzon, Guam and the three major bases of Truk Island under construction, mainly in Luzon, Guam and Truk Island under construction, because there are many islands in their defense circle, they are very scattered, so the four Jinghai-class ships with sufficient endurance and speed will all be incorporated into the Second Fleet, but in order to ensure that the fleet has sufficient combat effectiveness, it will also be incorporated into two Duke-class battleships, two Vladivostok-class heavy cruisers, and two small light cruisers and six destroyers, together with the original escort small fleet currently stationed in Luzon.

But since the gunboats were too small for ocean voyages, they would be used primarily to patrol the vast island clusters in the area, protect shipping lanes, and combat pirates.

After taking out the family foundation and drying it, it is actually very simple to divide the family, but after the separation, which command mode to adopt, how to coordinate operations between the two fleets, and how to ensure that the current maritime frontier is covered by the division of defense zones all need to be carefully considered.

The important thing is that the fleet is convenient, and it only needs to drive the warships over, but the army is very troublesome, taking Luzon to Lushun as an example, the ship also has to travel for more than ten days, so how to coordinate the relationship between the army and the navy in the jurisdiction is a very crucial step.

Chen Ping suggested adopting the theater system, that is, instead of taking the fleet as the core, the two theater commands of the South Sea and the Pacific should be set up to command the army and navy within their jurisdiction, but in order to limit the power of the theater command and avoid the situation of supporting troops and respecting themselves, the theater command does not have the post of commander during non-war time, and all routine tasks are completed by the staff headquarters under the command, and the staff officers of the theater command are also subject to the general staff.

Only when war breaks out, the commander of the theater is appointed by the General Staff.

As soon as this idea was proposed, Long Guozhang immediately raised objections, because in his opinion, after the establishment of the theater command, the fleet would be under the name of the theater, and he, the commander of the navy, could only go home and make fun of Sun fishing.

Li Mo laughed out loud when he heard this, and explained the theater system, which does not mean that the navy and army should be divided into separate forces, because in peacetime, the navy and army still have their own headquarters under control, and only when the time comes for a war to be fought, the general staff and the navy and army will consult to appoint the theater commander, and which troops will be sent or transferred into which theater.

The main purpose of doing this is to reduce the number of command links and improve the efficiency of command in wartime, rather than to divide the armed forces.

After some explanation, Long Guozhang and Tan Xiaozeng gradually understood, this is equivalent to a family giving birth to two babies, each of them inherited hundreds of acres of land, how to take care of it is usually in their own hands, but when the farm is busy, their father needs to allocate labor according to who lives more and who lives less, so that they can make great use of resources, and because the two children's fields are managed by their father on weekdays, they only take over when they are busy with farming, so the power is also concentrated in the hands of the father.

This is also the reason why Li Mo and Chen Ping discussed for a long time and adopted the theater system of power and concentration, and after the concept of separating the navy and the theater system was resolved, the four of them remained the same in the selection of fleet commanders.

The commander of the First Fleet, Ji Weishan, was promoted to commodore general.

The commander of the Second Fleet, Le Fei, was promoted to Commodore Admiral.

If Ji Weishan became a commander because of his steady style, good view of the overall situation, and proficient in naval tactics, then Lefei was completely because of the bold and decisive tactical style shown in this war, as well as the ability to grasp fleeting fighters and other outstanding performances, which made him stand out from many captains and made a triple jump.

The only similarity between the two is that they have both stayed in foreign naval powers, received a complete naval system education, and all of them have been tested in actual combat.

When the clock rang in the middle of the night, Li Mo signed his name on the letter of appointment, which also meant that the fleet he had built five years ago had finally branched out after five years of ups and downs.