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If we add the civilian personnel of the navy and the various departments of the air force and the state military council, then the total strength of the republic can easily exceed a million without any problem. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

When Shen Gang approached Chen Jingyun with his 1915 army reorganization plan, he did not simply say that he wanted to restore the numbers occupied by the predecessors of the Dian Army, the Gui Army and the Jin Sui Army, but prepared a large amount of information to show that in terms of China's existing vast territory, the current army force is seriously insufficient, even if the 59 infantry divisions are reorganized, it is still insufficient to face the surrounding international situation. In addition, Mongolia and other northwest regions are unstable, and it is not enough to have more than 100,000 troops, and there are more than 100,000 troops in the southwest region.

In short, in a word, there is a shortage of troops.

Faced with the army's 1915 army reorganization plan, Chen Jingyun thought about it for a long time and asked Shen Gang and several other army generals about it, and finally approved the plan, but Chen Jingyun extended the implementation time of this plan from one year to three years, in other words, he was ready to pay for the expansion of the army in installments, instead of taking out his surname at one time as he is now.

After Shen Gang found Chen Jingyun, Sa Zhenbing and Cheng Biguang and other people from the navy also came up, and brought the first phase of the revised naval development plan, in the first phase of the naval development plan proposed by the navy last time, but it was a huge plan to purchase two battleships, two 20,000-ton large cruisers, four light cruisers and eighteen destroyers, and the required funds were as high as three or four hundred million. When Chen Jingyun only read the beginning and said that he would buy two battleships within three years, he did not continue to look at it, but directly returned it to the Admiralty as it was, and solemnly told Cheng Biguang that he asked the Admiralty to face up to the financial situation and not to make unrealistic demands for military expansion.

After being seriously criticized by Chen Jingyun, the navy was not willing to fail, and the topic of requesting the purchase of new battleships was mentioned in 1911 to the current 1915, and they mentioned it with Chen Jingyun almost every few months, although they could not be approved each time, but it did not affect the navy to continue to put forward similar plans. However, out of practical considerations, the navy quickly proposed amendments to the first phase of the naval development plan, and the battleships and large cruisers had already been crossed out by Cheng Biguang himself, but the plan to build three lightning strike fleets was retained, and the core of the lightning strike fleet was to take three destroyers as a team, three teams as a lightning strike fleet, and one lightning strike fleet with a flagship of more than 5,000 tons. After completion, it had a total of three light cruisers and 27 destroyers. In addition to the construction of three lightning fleets, the Admiralty proposed to keep a fleet of battleships and a high-speed cruiser fleet, that is, to form a battleship fleet with the existing two former dreadnought battleships and two armored cruisers as the core, and two heavy cruisers as the core to form a high-speed cruiser fleet, and the existing four light cruisers were to be assigned to the battleship fleet and the cruiser fleet as reconnaissance cruisers, but in fact, these four cruisers were originally designed as reconnaissance cruisers. Not designed as a flagship in the Thunderstrike fleet.

As for the reason why a number of old ships are old and outdated, they are not incorporated into the main fleet, but are used for coastal defense and training.

In addition to the ocean-going fleet, the first phase of the Navy's development plan also called for the construction of 50 100-ton torpedo boats for the coastal defense of various ports, the Yangtze River, the Pearl River and other estuaries.

The plan is beautiful, but when Chen Jingyun saw that the total cost of the first phase of the naval development plan was as high as 80 million yuan, Chen Jingyun once again waved the big knife to cut the budget, and this time he was too lazy to let the navy group change it, because the navy group would not give up too much no matter what.

Therefore, he directly proposed revisions in the first phase of the development plan of the navy, and it was feasible to continue to have a fleet of battleships and a fleet of high-speed cruisers, and for this purpose a certain amount of money could be allocated to modernize the two dreadnoughts and the two mounted cruisers, mainly in the areas of radio communications and fire control equipment. And the plan to build three lightning strike fleets was also directly cut down, leaving only two lightning strike fleets, so that excluding the existing ships of the navy, only six new destroyers and two flagships of the lightning strike fleet would be built.

Chen Jingyun also felt that it was necessary to build as many torpedo boats as many as 50 at once, and according to the establishment of a team of nine torpedo boats, it would be enough to build three detachments first.

As a result, the main content of the first phase of the Navy's development plan was to build two new flagship cruisers, six destroyers, and 27 torpedo boats of less than 100 tons, with a total cost of about 45 million yuan. If it is divided into three years, it will be about 15 million a year.

Of course, the development of the navy is not only the construction of the navy, but also the construction of naval bases and coastal defense facilities.

In view of the difficulties in the approval of the development plans of the army and navy, and when the air force did not even take the initiative to submit the development plan, Chen Jingyun had already instructed the air force to build five wings within three years and upgrade the existing aircraft.

After arguing for several days, the plan for the distribution of military spending was finally decided, and the army once again occupied the vast majority of military spending, taking 230 million yuan out of the 300 million yuan in military spending. Although the navy has taken a small amount, it still has 50 million yuan, but the 8 million yuan promised by Chen Jingyun last year for special ship building funds has also been counted into this 50 million yuan, and the air force, which is the younger brother, has received a budget of 20 million yuan.

The allocation of the military budget is naturally impossible to satisfy everyone, but it is considered to take care of all aspects, Sa Zhenbing and Cheng Biguang can only calm down in the face of those naval development projects that Chen Jingyun personally cut, but the navy has not stopped their battleship dreams, and Sa Zhenbing is always ready to find an opportunity to buy two battleships for the navy.

To buy two battleships, this topic has been talked about from 1911 to the present, although it has not been approved, but the Navy group will not give up, and even the drawings of the battleships have been designed several copies, the Admiralty's Ship Administration Department has referred to many new battleships abroad, but put forward several design schemes, and these design schemes are almost all high-speed warships of more than 25 knots due to the strategic thinking of the high-speed cruiser fleet within the Navy. In this year, the speed of battleships was generally around 212 knots, and only after the British Queen Elizabeth class battleships, the new battleships of various countries have successively exceeded the threshold of 25 knots.

However, these design solutions will not be possible for a while. After the outbreak of World War I, there was no way for China to buy warships from Britain and Germany, and the United States had easy access to light warships, but it was very difficult to buy battleships, because they were also engaged in naval competitions with Britain and Britain, and they had to use large slipways, and China had no money, and now the price of a battleship was generally more than 30,000 yuan, and two ships were 60 or 70 million, which is not something that China's finances can afford now.

With China's current industrial base, it would be very good to be able to imitate a 1,000-ton destroyer such as a Suiding-class destroyer, and with the opinions of many technical experts such as the Guns and Guns Section and the Shipbuilding Section under the Ship Administration Department of the Admiralty, according to the current development speed of domestic ships and related industries, it is not a big problem to build a cruiser of 35,000 tons in the next year or two, and it is not impossible to build a 10,000-ton warship. But if you want China's shipbuilding industry to build a battleship of 30,000 tons or 40,000 tons, basically don't think about it in ten years.

In addition to ship design, a very important technical difficulty is that China is now unable to produce modern naval guns of more than 8 inches, and with the technical strength of relevant enterprises such as Dongnan Gao Iron and Steel and Shanghai Arsenal, it is now impossible to even imitate the American-made 8-inch naval guns with a caliber of 55 times the caliber on the Fuxing, and can only imitate the 8-inch naval guns with a short barrel of 40 times the caliber, and it is basically impossible to design and build modern naval guns with a larger caliber of 12 inches, 14 inches, or even 15 inches or 16 inches.

Of course, Vice Admiral Wei Han, director of the Naval Administration, also proposed a compromise construction method, that is, to invite Britain and the United States and other countries to design, build their own hulls, power systems, and import naval guns from the United States. Wei Han, a famous shipbuilding expert in modern China, was the shipbuilding director of the Admiralty in the former Qing Dynasty, and later served as the shipbuilding director of the Mawei Shipyard, and then was dropped into the equipment department as the director of the Ship Administration Department, and the Ship Administration Department was still the director after being assigned to the Navy Department. He led the technical experts of the Ship Administration Department to successfully draw and design the Zhongxia-class destroyers and the Suiding-class destroyers, and began to design two cruiser flagships for the Lightning Strike Fleet, and he also presided over the battleship design proposals proposed by the Ship Administration Department many times. After the Battle of Qingdao last year, Wei Hanwei was promoted to vice admiral.

Wei Han's plan still has a considerable feasible surname, although the hull design is very difficult, but if you want to invite British and American designers to jointly design, the problem is not big, and the most basic armored steel for building battleships, Southeast Iron and Steel Company has preliminarily completed the imitation of CKC armored steel, which can provide armored steel for warships, and the power system, although the quality of the steam turbine of Shanghai Power Company is not good, but it can be used, and the problem is not too prominent, and the most difficult naval gun system is directly imported. The only remaining difficulties are the shipyard's original slipway and large shipbuilding equipment, but these can be overcome with heavy investment.

Of course, the cost of the warships built in this way will also be frighteningly high, and it will be at least 30% more expensive than the armies of the great powers of the same period, and the surname can not be guaranteed. Despite all the troubles, the Navy still did not give up on this idea, and started some experimental surname projects, of course, the cost of these experimental surname projects had to be paid by the Navy itself.

In the case of not being able to get new battleships, the Navy had to put its hopes in other directions, such as the Naval Aviation Force, since the completion of the formation of a torpedo squadron of the Navy, has carried out many experiments and tried to bomb the German [***] ships in Jiaozhou Bay in the Battle of Qingdao, but it was very unfortunate that the only sortie of the torpedo squadron was lost so that it failed to drop the torpedo, and later the Air Force increased the bombing of the German battery, The Navy's torpedo squadron was converted from B3 bombers, so it also loaded bombs and participated in the land bombing.

So far, the navy's naval aviation units have not completed even one torpedo bombing operation, but this does not affect the fact that some people in the navy are optimistic about the prospects of the naval aviation units, but what they see is not their torpedo attack, but the reconnaissance ability of aircraft, for this reason, the navy has purchased an 8,000-ton civilian ship from an American shipping company after many preliminary tests, and is ready to modify this civilian ship, lay the deck to test the take-off and landing feasibility of the aircraft, and collect various data.

China's road to aircraft carriers begins with this modified aircraft carrier!