Chapter 134: Reforms in the Pipeline

"Young Master, just now the General Staff called and said that our fleet at the New Taipei City Naval Base has departed!" Huo Lei put down the phone that had been installed for a while in his hand, walked to the lake, and was resting in the pavilion Huo Shan whispered.

Listening to his words, Huo Shanshen nodded calmly, looking at the sparkling lake not far away, with a trace of worry in his eyes!

With advanced warships and sailors who have been strictly trained for two years, he is not afraid that the Huo Jiajun will lose this war, and now the only thing he is worried about is the nearly 3,000 naval officers and soldiers on the twelve warships, which are the most talented people that the Huo Jiajun Navy has cultivated for two years! They have not damaged a single one, which is enough for the Admiralty to feel distressed! However, there is no way! Relying only on training and not experiencing war, the Huo Jiajun Navy will never become a real maritime power! After all, they are not like those century-old naval powers in Europe, China, which has been closed off for hundreds of years, really lacks the foundation of the navy, and now if Huo Jiajun wants to narrow this gap, then only by war, and only war can make a naval man grow rapidly, and only war can improve the naval quality of Huo Jiajun, and only war can shorten the hundred-year gap with European powers in the navy! Therefore, this time Huo Jiajun has no choice! Moreover, using the relatively weak Dutch and Portuguese fleets as the first real maritime opponent of the Huo Jiajun can also minimize the losses of the Huo Jiajun's navy!

"Lei Zi, have you brought Huo Feng's draft reform of the Admiralty?" Huo Shan suddenly turned his head and asked.

"I've already called and asked just now, and now they haven't decided yet, and it won't be handed in until tomorrow afternoon at the earliest!"

Hearing his words, Huo Shan nodded silently, as more and more naval personnel were trained by the Huo Family, and the total tonnage of warships was also increasing, all departments of the Admiralty also needed to be continuously improved! Of course, the War Department, which had a huge number of personnel, was the same!

The development of the Huo Jiajun is really too fast, and it is difficult for the various political and military systems now in force to meet the development needs of the Huo Jiajun! Moreover, after this war with the Netherlands and Portugal, the territory of the Huo Jiajun will also be truly stabilized! In addition, after this naval battle, they will receive more and more attention, and with the economic development of various provinces and cities, their ties with the world will become closer and closer, and the previous secrecy system is no longer suitable, and it cannot be enforced! In addition, if Huo Jiajun wants to govern this nearly 3 million square kilometers of land, tens of millions of square kilometers of sea territory, and a huge circle of influence that spans tens of thousands of miles of sea and tens of thousands of islands, he also needs a political system that is justified and can be recognized by the international community, that is, one thing that Huo Shan has been preparing for a long time!

"Statehood, on the existing territory of the South Seas and the Pacific Ocean, the formation of a real state!"

Of course, he still buried this matter in his own psychology and did not mention it to anyone! However, many high-ranking personnel of the Huo Jiajun had reported to him the problem of founding the country! Because he was preparing for a war with the Netherlands and Portugal, he had been delaying the establishment of the country without approval!

"Now, it's time to start preparing for this!" Huo Shan looked at the blue sky, and whispered to himself in a somewhat stunned voice, it has been more than two years since he returned to this world, and after more than two years of hard work, he has finally come to this point!

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On Ngano Island, Xisha Province (Sumatra), fifty kilometers south of the Indian Ocean, twelve warships of the Huo Jiajun have been parked here!

This is also the ambush location selected by the Huo Jiajun Navy!

Although the Dutch and Portuguese fleets can be intercepted more accurately in the Sunda Strait, the strait is only a few tens of kilometers wide and is not conducive to high-speed destroyers maneuvering at sea and defeating the combined fleets of the two countries with the advantage of speed and firepower!

"Commander, we have just received a wireless telegram from Sea Hawk 1, and now the navies of the two countries have reached the ocean five hundred nautical miles northwest of Simelu Island, and they will enter the ambush circle we have set up within 18 or 18 hours at the latest!"

After taking the telegram from the combat staff officer, Lu Han read it carefully, and asked calmly: "Pass it to the captains of the warships! In addition, notify the telegraph room and ask them to pay close attention to the radio waves forwarded from the Sea Eagle One, and notify me in time if there is any new situation!"

"Understood, Commander!"

"Let's go down!"

Xiao Kenian wiped the sweat from his palms, their fleet had been parked in this sea not far from Xisha Province for nearly 12 hours! He could already feel that the combined fleet of the Netherlands and Portugal was getting closer and closer to him, and the tense atmosphere on the entire Lianpo destroyer was getting stronger and stronger! The turret, which was originally full of laughter and laughter, also became silent, and his comrades-in-arms were silently packing up their equipment! is already in his thirties, and the old squad leader, who usually tells jokes to everyone, has also become silent, and is constantly wiping the 130mm shells that have just been lifted from the ammunition compartment with the blue combat uniform on his body!

Xiao Ke let out a long sigh, stretched out his right hand and took out a nameplate hanging around his neck from his camouflage vest, which recorded his name, soldier number, and position! It can ensure that after he dies in battle, the troops can accurately identify him and bring his body to his hometown! Therefore, many soldiers jokingly call this little thing 'Dead Card'!

Thinking of the suicide note he had already written, Xiao Kenian clutched the iron card in his hand tightly, gritted his teeth fiercely, and secretly said to himself in his heart: "I must survive!"

"Squad leader, why do you keep wiping that shell?" At this moment, a young soldier couldn't help but ask!

As this sentence broke the silence in the turret, the soldiers of the second artillery group around them also raised their heads!

Xiao Kenian knew the soldier who asked the question, his name was Liu Chengen, and he was a graduate of the Naval Academy who had just been assigned to the destroyer Lianpo! He was not very old, only 19 years old, and like him, he was from Sansha Town, Fujian, the coastal town that was first liberated by the Huo Jiajun! Therefore, the relationship between the two has always been good!

Looking at the curious eyes of his soldiers, Hong Hai couldn't help but roll his eyelids, of course he wouldn't say that it was because he was also participating in actual combat for the first time, so he was nervous!

"What do you kid know, the cleaner the shells are wiped, the more accurate they will be hit! When the time comes, when we encounter the Dutch and Portuguese warships, it is guaranteed that our second group will hit the enemy ship first, and maybe if we are lucky, we can sink it directly!" After saying that, he turned over the slightly clean side of his combat uniform and wiped it fiercely on the brass bullet casing, which could already be used as a mirror!

"Is that really the case? Why didn't any teacher teach us when I was studying at the Naval Academy?" Liu Chengen touched his head with some confusion and whispered to himself.

Hearing his words, Hong Hai couldn't help but blush, and his subordinates moved faster!

"What are you doing?" Hong Hai asked differently, looking at the young man who was about to wipe another cannonball.

"Hehe, squad leader! I also want to sink the Dutch warship with the first shot! When the time comes, I can marry a daughter-in-law, and this time I want to apply to the political commissar for a white daughter-in-law, because I heard from the squad leader of the No. 1 artillery squad He that a white woman's ass is capable of giving birth, and my mother hopes that I can let him hug his grandson as soon as possible!" Liu Chengen said with a blushing face a little shy.

"Haha......!" Hearing his words, all the comrades-in-arms around him couldn't help laughing!

Hong Hai looked at his subordinates with some tears and laughter, and couldn't help but curse in his heart: "He is a crazy bastard, he has brought all my soldiers to ruin!"

At this time, He Shengliang, who was closing his eyes in the No. 1 turret, suddenly sneezed, breaking the same silent atmosphere around him!

"Who's scolding me behind my back?"