readx; After these changes, the Navy Department of the Nationalist Army has basically replaced the Admiralty of the Beiyang Central Political Axe and has become the actual representative of the Chinese Navy, and as a result, a large number of naval officers have resigned from their posts in the Navy Department and chose to go to Fuzhou to serve in the Navy Department of the Nationalist Army. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

As for the Jiuding dispute between the Nationalist Army and the Beiyang Army, these naval officers didn't care too much, although Chen Jingyun had vigorously promoted the Kuomintang in the Nanjing Naval Military Academy and the Fuzhou Naval Military Academy, but he still failed to change the Navy's own reading power, even if Chen Jingyun was psychologically unwilling, but he also knew that the current navy itself was not even as effective as Sa Zhenbing's speech, and Sa Zhenbing's prestige in the navy was much higher than him. If one day the Nationalist Army is defeated, or another force appears in the Beiyang Army that can afford to raise the navy and build warships for the navy, then the navy is estimated to abandon Chen Jingyun without hesitation and throw himself into the arms of others!

This is caused by the special surname of the Navy! Unlike the Army, the Army was established by Chen Jingyun from beginning to end, and due to the vigorous promotion of the National Socialist Party, the Nationalist Army's personal loyalty to Chen Jingyun was still guaranteed. But the navy is another matter, the navy is not an ordinary branch of the army, even a sailor is trained for a long time, Chen Jingyun wants to start over is simply impossible, if he does not win over those naval officers trained in the former Qing Dynasty, then even if he has money, one hundred and eighty battleships will be exploded in one or two years, then there will be no one to take a stand.

In these years, a qualified naval officer needs to pay a lot of money to train, first from the teenage years to learn all kinds of cultural knowledge, and then in Mawei or Tianjin or Nanjing these naval officer schools for many years, and after they graduate, they have to send them to study in the British naval school, this circle can not be completed in more than ten years. The grass-roots officers of the army can get up quickly, and even those high-ranking generals can slowly get up from the small soldiers, and they can fight in large regiments in a few years, but there is nothing to be done in the training of naval officers, and it must be done step by step and spend a lot of time to train slowly.

Centennial Navy, this is not about the huge cost of manufacturing warships, but about the details of personnel training and system! Relatively speaking, battleships are secondary, because these can be mass-produced in a short time with money and industrial capacity, but not with personnel.

Based on this situation, if Chen Jingyun wants to build up the navy, then he has to win over those naval officers trained in the pre-Qing era to serve him, and these naval officers obviously do not believe in the National Socialist Party, and they have no feeling for Chen Jingyun's personal prestige, after all, Yuan Shikai is much stronger than Chen Jingyun when it comes to prestige, but for the sake of the overall interests of the navy such as naval military spending and new warships, the Chinese navy can be said to have completely abandoned Yuan Shikai and thrown himself into Chen Jingyun's arms.

Even if he knew that there were all kinds of drawbacks, Chen Jingyun still had to do this, and there was still a long way to go if he wanted to cultivate his own naval lineage in the future.

With the arrival of Chen Jingyun, the induction ceremony officially began, Chen Jingyun held a small-scale ceremony on the Feihong, announcing that these new warships officially joined the national navy, and then announced on the spot that the number of the Fuzhou fleet would be revoked, and the first and second fleets would be used, and the third fleet would be newly established!

The First Fleet was mainly composed of the Haiqi, Hairong, Haichou and Haichou, supplemented by five newly commissioned destroyers. Plus the original destroyer USS Flying Eagle and a number of fast torpedo boats. Although the number of warships in the First Fleet is far less than that of the Second Fleet, each of them is the capital ship of the Chinese Navy, and all of them are warships that can carry out ocean-going operations, which can be said to be the essence of the Chinese Navy today.

The Second Fleet is mainly composed of five newly commissioned Changle-class gunboats, supplemented by many original gunboats, including a number of Chuzi-class, Jiangzi-class and other old gunboats. The Second Fleet, consisting of many gunboats, will become an inland river and coastal fleet, including inland rivers such as the Pearl River and the Yangtze River and the Min River, and will also be responsible for coastal patrols. The Second Fleet has many small ships, and it is also stationed in Guangzhou, Jiangyin, Fuzhou and other places, so it is relatively scattered. The commander is the former captain of the Haiqi, Wen Tinghe, and Rear Admiral.

The Third Fleet is different from the First Fleet and the Second Fleet, and the Feihong and Tongji under his jurisdiction are training ships, and the two training cruisers built by the British will also join the Third Fleet after returning to China. To put it simply, this is a training fleet, the main task is not to fight, but to train naval personnel for the Chinese Navy, and after graduating from several naval schools, they will go to the Third Fleet for internships before being transferred to other fleets to take up practical positions.

This time, taking advantage of the opportunity of the commissioning ceremony, the navy transferred most of the main ships to prepare for a large-scale naval parade.

Chen Jingyun looked at these warships on the sea, and felt a lot of emotion in his heart, the Chinese navy in front of him can be regarded as having almost gone through a hundred years of wind and rain, starting from the establishment of the Nanjing Naval Division and the Beiyang Naval Division, although this fleet experienced the humiliation of the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War on the way, but did not sink there, but continued to be tenaciously reborn, before and after the purchase of Haitian, Haiqi and Haizi-class ships, and then to the three training ships and many gunboats ordered at the end of the Qing Dynasty, has laid the foundation for the rebirth of the Chinese Navy. Although the navy he took over from the former Qing Dynasty and Yuan Shikai did not swell much, it did not hurt the bones in Xinhai, laying the foundation for his large-scale expansion of the navy. Later, when the Sino-US naval cooperation plan is completed and a large number of warships return to China, that will be when the Chinese navy re-emerges in the Far East.

Standing on the bridge of the Feihong, Chen Jingyun seemed to have seen the huge fleet of the Chinese Navy as it flew over the Pacific and Indian Oceans!

Everything in the future will be different because of what you do today!

When Chen Jingyun looked at the fleets that belonged to him on the sea, there were also other people in the distance who were holding binoculars looking at the fleet holding a naval parade on the sea, and said, "A major in the navy put down the binoculars in his hand.

"This time, the instrument is still decent, and it seems to be good on the surface!"

Another navy lieutenant sneered: "There are just empty shelves, among these warships, only those cruisers are still a little interesting, and the others are just decorations!" ”

"Yes, I really don't understand why the Chinese like to get so many river gunboats!" Shaozo really doesn't understand, picking up the scale and number of gunboats, China is definitely the first in the world. In fact, only China has a soft spot for this kind of inland coastal gunboats, which has been the case since the Zhang Zhidong era, and then to the Li Hongzhang era. In fact, this is also due to China's unique national conditions, the first is that China's inland rivers are open to foreign powers, and there are often small warships of foreign powers in inland rivers, and countries such as Ben and Britain have specially designed and built gunboats for cruising on the Yangtze River for the naval fleet stationed in China. As a result, in order to face these foreign [***] ships in the Yangtze River, the Chinese side also had to follow up and build equivalent gunboats. In one, that is, in order to suppress the southern and other provinces along the Yangtze River, the Qing court also needed special shallow gunboats to sail into the Yangtze River to carry out artillery operations along the coast, and even set up a special Yangtze River fleet for this purpose. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Chinese navy was divided into two parts, one was the cruiser fleet and the other was the Yangtze River fleet, which shows that the Yangtze River is an important surname for the Chinese navy.

With these two practical needs and decades of habits, the Chinese navy attaches great importance to gunboats, and has built a large number of gunboats over the years, and even among the new warships in service this time, in addition to the five destroyers, there are five Changle-class gunboats and a number of gunboats of one or two hundred tons, all of which have joined the Second Fleet, resulting in the number of gunboats in the Second Fleet as many as more than 20.

"I heard that the United States and Chen Jingyun have a secret agreement on a naval cooperation plan?" Shao Zuo is disdainful of the Chinese navy in front of him, this is not his arrogance, but the fact, to fight the Chinese navy in front of him, he said, 'It is enough for this navy to send a cruiser detachment at will, and there is no need to even send the main fleet over.' The current Chinese navy is really indifferent to the United Kingdom, the United States, and other powers.

"This news has been rumored for a long time, but it has never been confirmed!" Some of them were worried: "It is rumored that the United States wants to build a warship for Chen Jingyun, but it is still a large warship of nearly 10,000 tons!" It's just that this news is very fake, and the credibility is not high! ”

"It's hard to say, judging by Chen Jingyun's attitude, he should want to rebuild the navy. As for how hard it will be to rebuild the navy, it's hard to say, but don't worry, even if Chen Jingyun makes every effort to rebuild the navy, at least for twenty years, the imperial navy will not need to consider its threat! ”

"I hope so!"

When these two naval officers were observing the Chinese navy, there were also naval officers from other great powers who were also observing, and they were all invited to participate in the commissioning ceremony, and most of these people had an indifferent attitude, after all, the Chinese navy is too weak now, so they were not interested in watching it at all, and if it weren't for Chen Jingyun's face, they probably wouldn't have come, but a few naval officers on the American side were very interested.

After the Sino-US naval cooperation program was launched, in addition to using loans to order warships from the United States, Chen Jingyun also sent a large number of students to study in the United States to prepare for the acceptance of warships, and at the same time, the US Navy also sent two batches of advisory groups to train the Chinese Navy. Although the U.S. Navy is like a child compared to the United Kingdom, it is also a seventeen or eighteen-year-old child, and there is no problem in teaching the Chinese Navy this five- or six-year-old child.

Numerous U.S. naval advisers entered the Chinese fleet, and even once assumed the role of actual commander of the fleet, but as time passed, the massive expansion of the Chinese navy slowly grew, and now these U.S. naval officers look at the fleet as if they were their own children.