Zhang Liang replied: "The fundamental strategy is to find like-minded people to form the third pole of the world with Great Xia, and form a system of their own, so as to compete with the [Silver Hand] and the academic school. ”

If you want to be free from the mercy of others, you have to step out of the rules of the game that others have set for you.

"Okay." Ouyang Shuo's heart instantly brightened, handed the list to Zhang Liang, and said, "After going down, the Senior Administration Pavilion will study it carefully to see how to use this list to play a big game of chess." ”

"Understood!"

Zhang Liang nodded solemnly, and the opportunity for the Senior Administration Pavilion to show his strength had finally come.

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In the next few days, the world was quiet.

On January 10, the fifth year of Gaia, Gan Ning led the royal fleet back to Beihai Port smoothly, and the fleet returned with the first submarine of the Great Xia Navy, the Black Shark.

The next morning, Daxia finally had a new move.

On this day, Zheng He, the Governor of the Navy, Li Hongzhang, the Minister of the Navy and the principal of the Naval Academy, Lu Su, the Chief of Staff of the Navy Command, Gan Ning, the Admiral of the Royal Fleet, Zhou Yu, the Admiral of the Southern Xinjiang Fleet, Yu Dayou, the Admiral of the Yashan Fleet, Shi Lang, the Admiral of the Yizhou Fleet, the Admiral of the Indian Ocean Fleet, the Admiral of the Atlantic Fleet, Alvaro, and the Admiral of the Coastal Fleet Qi Jiguang, and the ten most core generals of the Great Xia Navy gathered in Shanhai City.

After making the strategic choice of "outside the main but not inside", the first thing Ouyang Shuo had to do was to carry out a thorough reshaping of such a key military force as the navy, and work with the naval giants to formulate a development plan for the navy for the next three years to cooperate with the dynasty's overseas strategy.

Among the seven fleets, only one formation of the Royal Fleet is the most special; The Littooral Fleet was formed the latest, and so far there are only two formations, which have not yet been fully formed; The remaining five fleets are all at full strength.

The first step in rebuilding the Navy is to adjust the structure.

One of the biggest weaknesses of the Great Xia Navy is that it focuses heavily on the near sea and light on the ocean. The Royal Fleet aside, the Southern Fleet Fleet, the Yashan Fleet, the Yizhou Fleet and the Coastal Fleet are all offshore fleets.

This may not have been much before, but when the strategic center of gravity of the dynasty shifted outward, and the domestic [Yanhuang Alliance] could not pose a mortal threat to Great Xia, it was very redundant to still have so many fleets in the coastal waters.

Not to mention wasting a lot of resources, it is also a huge burden on military spending.

The first to be adjusted was the Southern Frontier Fleet.

The predecessor of the Southern Frontier Fleet was the North Bay Fleet, which was also the first naval fleet in Great Xia, which entered the inland after the restructuring and was headquartered in Poyang Lake in Jiangchuan Province.

Ouyang Shuo's original intention was to let the Southern Fleet cooperate with the army.

As the situation in the world gradually stabilized, it was no longer necessary to deploy such a large fleet inland, and it could be appropriately dismantled.

It just so happened that the Coastal Fleet had not yet been fully formed, so Ouyang Shuo immediately decided to adjust the third, fourth, and fifth formations of the Southern Xinjiang Fleet to the Coastal Fleet. In the future, the Southern Fleet will retain only two formations.

It is very important for the Coastal Fleet to compete with the Handan Fleet and the Haizhou Fleet of the [Yanhuang Alliance] in the northern seas alone, to ensure the influence of the dynasty in the northern seas, and to make it reach full strength as soon as possible.

This is one of them.

The coastal fleet is close to Dongying, and it will certainly play an important role in the national war, and after Qi Jiguang, a famous anti-Japanese general, takes office, it is even more necessary to reach the full strength of the coastal fleet in time.

In addition to the reduction of troops, the Southern Xinjiang Fleet, as a purely inland water division, is somewhat inappropriate to be assigned to the navy. In this adjustment, the Southern Xinjiang Fleet was renamed the Southern Xinjiang Naval Division again, officially withdrew from the naval sequence, and was assigned to the leadership of the Privy Council and the Military Aircraft Department, and the treatment was on par with that of the Army.

At the same time, the fleet admiral was also adjusted.

He was relieved of his position as Admiral of the Ganning Royal Fleet and transferred to the Admiral of the Southern Xinjiang Naval Division. Zhou Yu was relieved of his position as Admiral of the Southern Xinjiang Fleet and transferred to the Admiral of the Royal Fleet.

It is equivalent to saying that Gan Ning and Zhou Yu have completed a reversal.

After the Southern Xinjiang Naval Division was abolished, its strategic position plummeted, and Ouyang Shuo naturally would not let a famous general like Zhou Yu be buried with him, and it was normal to be transferred to the royal fleet.

Moreover, it was expedient to choose Gan Ning as the admiral of the royal fleet in the first place.

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The next adjustment is the Yizhou fleet.

The Yizhou Fleet was renamed the Pacific Fleet and became the third ocean-going fleet of the Bactrian Navy. In this way, in addition to the Arctic Ocean, in the four oceans, Great Xia has an exclusive ocean-going fleet stationed in it.

The global layout has been implemented.

After the adjustment, except for the Royal Fleet, the jurisdiction of the other five fleets was also clear.

The Yashan Fleet under the command of Yu Dayou took the South China Sea as its main jurisdiction, and the Coastal Fleet under the command of Qi Jiguang took the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea as its jurisdiction.

Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou, the old partners in the confrontation, one south and one north, can be described as a peerless double pride.

The Atlantic Fleet under the command of Spanish Admiral Alvaro is headquartered in Morocco and covers the Mediterranean, the west coast of the African continent and the east coast of the American continent.

With the participation of Britain, the Netherlands, and the United States, the Atlantic Fleet will be the most difficult of the six fleets.

Fortunately, there is Álvaro, the Spanish military god, in charge, which makes Ouyang Shuo feel a lot more at ease.

The Indian Ocean Fleet, led by the pyrotechnic demons, is headquartered in the Lion City and includes parts of the ASEAN region, the east coast of the African continent, and Oceania, where Australia and New Zealand are located.

As a result, the Atlantic Fleet will withdraw from the waters of the Gulf of Aden and hand over the defense zone to the Indian Ocean Fleet.

In addition to defending strategic points such as the Strait of Malacca, the Somali province and the Auckland region, the Indian Ocean Fleet will inevitably collide with the Tianzhu Fleet in the future and compete for control of the Indian Ocean.

The Pyrotechnic Demon, a legendary admiral who has grown up as an inhuman, will also be given a broader platform.

Finally, there is the Pacific Fleet under the command of Shi Lang, the headquarters is still located in Yizhou County for the time being, and in the future, Ouyang Shuo hopes that the Pacific Fleet can take the Hawaiian Islands as a springboard.

It would also be advisable to establish a naval base on the American continent to complete the layout of the Pacific Ocean.

In addition to the Dongying in the north, the enemies of the Pacific Fleet were mainly the Dawson dynasty, and they also shouldered the important task of opening up trade routes between the dynasty and South America.

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Clearly defining the jurisdictions of the five major fleets is only the first step, and the more important thing is to formulate different plans for the development of weapons and equipment in view of the differences between the coastal fleet and the ocean-going fleet.

With the application of "Magic Power Submarine Manufacturing Technology", the equipment system of the Great Xia Navy covers warships, auxiliary ships, artillery, muskets, submarines, carrier-based aircraft, mines, etc., which has been basically perfected.

However, with the new round of system updates, Gaia has greatly slowed down the manufacturing speed of weapons and equipment, and even with the developed shipbuilding industry and military manufacturing industry in Great Xia, there must be a trade-off.

Ouyang Shuo's strategy is very simple, that is, to give priority to equipping the three ocean-going fleets and refitting them, and this refitting is not just as simple as replacing the main warship.

"Within three years, the three ocean-going fleets will achieve a metamorphosis, complete the transformation from cold weapons to hot weapons, and all the armor soldiers on the ships will be converted to musketeers or gunners, leaving no pure sword and shield soldiers or crossbowmen." Ouyang Shuo defined this meaningful costume change in this way.

The manufacture of muskets remains a problem, and it is even more difficult to manufacture them on a large scale.

According to preliminary estimates, at least 500 Z1 warships, 30,000 Z1 guns, 20,000 Z2 guns, and 200,000 guns will need to be built to complete this major rearmament.

For Daxia, where the industry is not yet developed, this is an unprecedented large order.

Gaia put an end to the auction tradition and sent a clear signal that Gaia would no longer use the auction to throw out equipment manufacturing manuals that exceeded the level of the existing tech tree.

The tech tree of the game world will no longer make any historic breakthroughs.

Specific to the navy, sail warships are still the mainstream warships of the navies of various countries for a long time. Even if anyone develops an ironclad ship powered by a steam engine, it is still experimental and cannot be installed on a large scale.

Among other things, the manufacturing schedule alone does not allow mass production.

It was based on such a strategic prediction that Ouyang Shuo decided to reequip the three ocean-going fleets on a large scale. Otherwise, it will not be easy to change to a Z1 type battleship, and Gaia will launch an ironclad ship again, which is not to cry.

Even so, this refitting still reserves some flexible space, not a one-time 100% replacement, and the specific replacement plan is naturally formulated by the military industry department in cooperation with the Navy Command, without Ouyang Shuo worrying.

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After the three steps of adjusting the structure, demarcating the jurisdiction, and formulating the fleet rearmament plan, the construction of the Great Xia Navy will enter a correct track and become more scientific and reasonable.

But that's not enough.

After the demarcation of the jurisdiction, the most important issue for the ocean-going fleet is how to build three to five naval bases at key points in the ocean to control sea power.

It would be great if there were all existing ports. If not, it is a big problem to choose between leasing a port or directly conquering the country where the port is located.

This is a systematic project, which requires the cooperation of the fleet, the naval command, and the military aircraft department to draw up a detailed expansion plan and timetable.

It also involves the intelligence network of the Black Snake Guard, the staff of the Senior Cabinet, and the deployment of the Cabinet. The list provided by Chen Lao can also play a role in this.

It's complicated.

Ouyang Shuo was not a harsh "boss", and his order to the admiral of the three ocean-going fleets was to complete the preparation of this naval base construction plan before the Lantern Festival.

How to coordinate the various departments is the business of the three admirals.

The fleet rearmament plan also involves the change of arms, and then involves the reshaping of the entire fleet.

The organization has been reshaped, and the tactical system has to be adjusted accordingly.

The question is, in the face of such a big adjustment, can the officers and men of the Navy turn this corner, and do they need to organize formal training?

This involves another link in the reshaping of the Navy - the construction of the Sailor School. Li Hongzhang, Minister of the Navy and President of the Naval Academy, will take this opportunity to gradually come to the forefront.