Chapter 17 Naval Organization (1)
Just as the Senate discussed the rights and interests of the elders, the Navy was also discussing the construction of the navy.
After the end of the Far East War, the territory, population and sea areas of East China had undergone great changes. Therefore, the military scale and military organization of the navy and army before the war were obviously no longer suitable for the security needs of East China, and both navy and army needed to be reorganized. However, Russia has not yet surrendered, and the army still has combat tasks and cannot start reorganization. However, the navy's combat mission was basically over at this time, and the rest was only to withdraw troops from Japan. Therefore, the Military Commission decided that the navy would first reorganize and require that the navy should not only be based on the current situation in East China, but also consider the needs of the future unification of the country.
The reorganization of the navy is mainly divided into two parts. One is the shipbuilding plan within this five-year cycle. Before the Far East War, East China ** built a 12,000-class battleship, a 10,000-ton armored cruiser, and built several 6-7,000-ton cruisers. However, after the Far East War began, resources were needed to concentrate on the war. Large warships were expensive and the construction period was too long, so all large and medium-sized warships were stopped. Now there are only a few destroyers of about a thousand-ton class under construction.
Of course, there is another very important reason why large and medium-sized warships were not built, that is, the warships captured in the previous few wars were also being repaired, and the current docks and ships were basically filled. In fact, the scale of the People's Army Navy is not small now, with a total of 8 battleships and 9 armored cruisers. Moreover, since the Japanese and Russian navies were severely damaged, the scale of the People's Army Navy can now rank among the top 5 in the world. However, most of the warships of the People's Army Navy are captured enemy warships, which are extremely rare in the development of naval forces in various countries. This is because of modern naval warfare, it is extremely difficult to capture enemy warships.
However, the Navy in East China mainly relies on five modern warships to support the field, and the attack is mainly based on the **. The ** attack is mainly based on the volley of the deck, which can destroy a large number of buildings and ship-borne artillery above the deck. Even if it is used to penetrate the deck, it does not cause much damage to the parts below the waterline, unless it happens to hit the ammunition depot and cause a death to explode. This will naturally create conditions for the People's Army Navy to capture enemy warships.
However, relying solely on capturing enemy warships is obviously not a long-term solution. Moreover, the five modern warships have basically been exhausted, and there will be no chance of capturing enemy warships on a large scale in the future, so they still have to rely on their own manufacturing. However, in the first five-year plan, East China ** established two shipyards in Qingdao and Tianjin respectively. Now they are all equipped with facilities, and they cannot accumulate experience and technical workers. Moreover, after the Far East War, East China ** received huge compensation and had enough funds to show their strength in the past five years. Of course, it is necessary to formulate a shipbuilding plan first.
The second is the allocation and arrangement of fleets. Before the Far East War, the coastline controlled by the East China ** was not long, so the People's Army Navy did not divide the fleet, but only divided it into squads according to the type of ship. Each team ranged from 4-6 warships. It is usually stationed in several coastal node ports such as Qingdao, Tianjin, Weihai, Yantai, etc. When there are combat tasks, each team will be temporarily combined.
However, the coastline controlled by East China has now ranged from Vladivostok to Shanghai, which is more than 2,000 kilometers long. It is obviously not suitable to the previous war unified berthing and wartime combination model. Moreover, in the Far East War, the People's Army Navy captured a large number of warships and was preparing to show its own warships. The scale of the fleet will naturally be further expanded. Therefore, it is necessary to divide the fleet and allocate the berthing arrangements.
The third is the establishment of the Marine Corps. Although there has been legend that the Marine Corps will form an independent army since the date of its establishment, the Military Commission obviously does not intend to form a Marine Corps alone. Therefore, the Marine Corps is still part of the Navy. However, the Military Commission also made a requirement that the Marine Corps must have the ability to dispatch quickly and fight independently. This means that the Marine Corps should have combat warships under its command in addition to landing ships.
This is also the experience summarized in the Far East War. During the Far East War, the Marine Corps attacked many times, but served as escort, fire cover, and supported warships were temporarily deployed and combined by the Navy Department. However, during the landing war, the problems of unfamiliar cooperation between the Marine Corps and the fleet, inconvenient command and dispatch, and the cooperation between the troops and the fleet after landing, although there was no major leak, this was obviously a hidden danger.
Since East China has acquired Borneo, it has extended its power into Southeast Asia, and there are many islands in this area, so the Marine Corps may undertake more combat tasks. However, since the garrisons in Southeast Asia are not strong, it is indeed not convenient if the Marine Corps will be deployed every time they are dispatched, and the Marine Corps has escort warships and fire support warships under their own command, so it is much more convenient.
However, the Marine Corps is still in Japan and will be withdrawn when Japan delivers the war compensation. Therefore, the establishment of the Marine Corps does not need to be considered for the time being. However, the Military Commission requires the Navy to reserve some of the warship tonnage for the Marine Corps when formulating a shipbuilding plan.
Originally, Shang Jinfeng entrusted Wang Hailong to formulate a shipbuilding plan because Wang Hailong was the fleet commander and should be clear about how many warships the navy needs, while he focused on the arrangement and arrangement of the fleet.
A week later, Wang Hailong made a shipbuilding plan named "Eight Eight Fleet": to build 4 20,000-ton-class dreadnoughts, 4 25,000-ton-class super-defying ships, a total of 8 battleships; 4 1.6-ton-class armored cruisers, and 4 22,000-ton-class battlecruisers, a total of 8 battleships; other warships also have 10 Qingzhou-class cruisers, 16 Dongchang-class cruisers, and 36 destroyers.
However, this plan was severely criticized by Shang Jinfeng because it was too unrealistic. Moreover, Xia Bohai and Qin Zheng, who are in charge of the current administration, are both from the navy and are very familiar with the situation of the navy. It would be boring to hand over this plan. In fact, if this plan is handed over, it would not be possible to reach Xia Bohai at all. Qin Zheng could not even pass Xiao Jianjun's level.
In fact, Wang Hailong also knew that his plan was unrealistic. His idea was very simple. This time the military organization actually determined the division of military expenditures in the next five years. Now that the reorganization of the army has not yet begun, the navy rarely takes the lead, so of course it is necessary to claim a little more. Moreover, the navy has sought a lot of prices so that the Executive Yuan can fight back on the spot. Then, if you know that the code is one plus, the more you add, it will eventually become this result.
Shang Jinfeng also understood Wang Hailong's intention, but the problem was that the price was really out of reach, and it was far beyond the current construction ability of East China **. It took Japan 10 years to create the "Six Six Fleet". I felt a little regretful and shouldn't have left this matter to Wang Hailong. Although Wang Hailong was a good player in commanding the fleet to fight, his IQ was a bit disconnected if he did other things.
In desperation, Shang Jinfeng had to start another project and finally formulated a five-year shipbuilding plan. Today's meeting was to discuss the navy's organization plan within the Navy.
At the beginning of the meeting, Shang Jinfeng first asked Huang Jiu to introduce the current shipbuilding ability of East China **, and emphasized that he would only talk about the problems and not talk about the results, because the results have been mentioned too much, and the people in the Navy should know what the current shipbuilding level of East China ** is.
Now Huang Ju is a major in the naval army, the director of the technical department of the Navy Equipment Department, and the representative of the shipyard. He is also married. His wife is from a ruined scholarly family. However, Bi Jing has received a good education since childhood, has a gentle personality, looks good, at least at the upper level. Although Huang Ju's figure has not changed much and is still a fat man, his mental temperament is very different from the previous otaku.
Huang Ju stood up and said, "There are three major problems in our shipbuilding capabilities. First, our shipbuilding technology has not accumulated enough. So far, we have only built two 10,000-ton warships, namely a Ganjiang-class battleship and a Chitu-class armored cruiser. The largest one is only 12,000 tons, and they are all completed under the guidance of German engineers. Although theoretically, we have all had the ability to independently build Ganjiang-class battleships or Chitu-class armored cruisers, so we can even amplify it, but it should not be too large. The Technical Department believes that the newly built warships should not exceed 15,000 tons, and ideally it is to control them to be around 14,000 tons, which is most in line with our current technical level."
Wang Hailong obviously did a lot of homework to formulate a shipbuilding plan, so he immediately said: "In the old time and space, Germany jumped from the 13,000-ton German class to the 18,000-ton Nassau class. Why can't we do a jumping development?"
Huang Ju said: "Our current industrial level cannot be compared with Germany. Now Germany is the world's largest industrial power. The level of armor, boilers and artillery is firmly ranked first in the world. It has a large number of skilled and experienced workers and technicians. All they lack is the concept of the navy and the design level of warships. Before building the Nassau class, Germany had built no less than 20,000-ton warships. Now our workers only have 4 or 5 years of work experience. Technology is not strong enough, and technicians are rare. They only have the experience of building two,000-ton warships. The only thing that is stronger than Germany is the ability to design warships. Therefore, we cannot compare ourselves with the development of such a leapfrog ship like Germany. We should still be down-to-earth and progressively. In fact, in the past five years, we have gone from nothing to being able to build a 100-ton warship. This development speed has actually been considered as speeding."
Shang Jinfeng hurriedly said: "Everyone knows the results, so there is no need to say more. The key is to talk about problems and problems."
Chapter completed!