Three days before the first batch of recruits entered the camp, Li Mu was called to the headquarters of the Third Fleet.

Guan Haiyang led him through the long corridor and spoke, "How was the scene of the Red Sea rescue?"

"There is more than a week to finish filming at the base. Li Mu smiled, "If you don't see it with your own eyes, I really don't know how those powerful shots were taken." ”

Guan Haiyang said with a smile, "A large number of shots have to be edited to form a coherent film, and post-processing is very important. Oh yes. ”

He took out a lighter from his pocket and handed it to Li Mu, "This, you transfer it to Wu Di." ”

The lighter was weighed in his hand, and Li Mu smiled, "This is the lighter, it's still a famous brand." ”

Guan Haihua said, "I have to tell you one more thing. Your engineering company that was run by Liu Huaqiang has been seized and is involved in crime. ”

Li Mu was not surprised, "Expected." ”

The two came to the fleet commander's office, Li Mu looked up and saw the sign at the door, and was stunned for a moment, "What's the situation?" ”

Guan Haiyang smiled and whispered, "The big leader wants to see you, okay, I'll send it here, you can go in by yourself." ”

Li Mu watched Guan Haiyang walk away for a while, and then slowly came back to his senses. He thought that he was talking about recruit training, and the big leaders wanted to meet, but it was obviously not about recruit training. The training of a few hundred recruits is not enough to reach the big leader.

knocked on the door, a confidential secretary came out of it, and politely invited Li Mu in, inside was the office of the big leader, and the confidential secretary knocked on the door to report, "Chief, Instructor Li has arrived." ”

"Come in. ”

Li Mu walked in, and after seeing clearly the two people sitting on the wooden sofa smoking and drinking tea, he was stunned again.

Isn't the bald head accompanied by Rear Admiral Gao Hai, the commander of the Third Fleet, the commander of the navy?

Hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

Commander Hai laughed, pointed to the single sofa on the side, and said, "Sit, sit down and talk." Tell me why you are wearing the rank of deputy captain, and you are expressing your dissatisfaction with your superiors' arrangement for you. ”

Li Mu didn't dare to put on a posture in front of this veteran commander who held hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers and hundreds of thousands of tons of ships, and hurriedly said, "Chief, I don't mean that, in order to facilitate work, it is better to have a lieutenant rank in the base." ”

Commander Hai smiled and said to Gao Hai, "Commander Gao, this time I saw a real person, I am very young." When I was his age, I was just a young major. ”

Gao Hai said with a smile, "It's really young. Xiao Li, you don't look like a thirty-two-year-old person, but like a twenty-five or six-year-old military cadet. ”

Li Mu replied with a smile, "I don't look old, I'm really old." ”

"Don't show your vicissitudes in front of us two old men, you boy. Commander Hai said, and then they all laughed.

It is true that he was promoted to major when he was in his early thirties, but Li Mu knew that it took Commander Hai less than ten years to enter the ranks of colonels, and then it only took eight years to complete the process of becoming a major general to a general. His promotion is not slow, he has been a commander for more than seven years, and he will continue to do so.

The position of this commander is transcendent and high in the army.

Rear Admiral Gao Hai is definitely not a young general, and the fact that he has been the commander of the Third Fleet for less than a year, and who has served as the commander of the fleet in the capacity of a rear admiral, shows one point - he is regarded as the successor of the naval commander and has been trained.

Such a circumstance highlights the peculiarities of the naval forces - continuation and accumulation.

Zhang Ning is another representative example, he is only two years older than Gao Hai, and he is now a general. In addition to personal development reasons, this has a lot to do with the military branch to which it belongs. It is an undeniable fact that army generals are usually promoted a little faster than those of the navy and air force.

Commander Gao Hai is already 67 years old, and he will serve for another three years at most, and 70 years old is the retirement age for senior generals, and the 57-year-old Rear Admiral Gao Hai next to him may succeed him as a vice admiral in three years, so as to continue the development strategy of the navy.

After gossiping for a while, the naval commander turned to the topic and said, "I called you here to talk to you about the expansion of the Marine Corps." I look left and right, and the first thing that comes to mind is you. ”

Gao Hai said, "Xiao Li, you have been researching new types of troops. There are many similarities between the Marine Corps and Army units, especially the Southeast Coastal Forces, where you once worked. We want to hear from young people. ”

Li Mu will not be modest at this time, nor is it a modest occasion.

He thought about it seriously and said, "Don't hide it from the two leaders, I do have some personal opinions about the construction of the Marine Corps. ”

Pointing at Li Mu, Commander Hai said, "Say, say boldly, say what you think." ”

After sorting out his thoughts, Li Mu said, "The current background, the situation we are facing in the future, including the most urgent task of our country to safeguard overseas interests, is the first to bear the brunt of the naval forces, which have the deepest relationship with the Marine Corps. In the past few years, our escort has been effective, but it has also exposed many problems. For example, there are no overseas support bases, there are not enough ground combat personnel, and there are no military bases that can rely on long-term deployment of troops. All these objective factors have greatly restricted the actions of the naval forces and also affected the strength of the naval forces in safeguarding the interests of overseas countries. ”

After a pause, Li Mudao said, "Relying on a few people in the special forces alone can't accomplish a military task of scale and level. The evacuation of Yemen has actually exposed the serious inadequacy of our land operations. Warships cannot sail on land, and in the evacuation of overseas Chinese in Yemen, it is necessary to rely on a large number of diplomatic personnel and a large number of enterprises and institutions stationed abroad. In fact, such a temporary system has no problem in dealing with one or two emergencies, but as a long-term means, many problems are exposed. ”

Li Mu said, "Although I have not been a supervisor of the National Defense Engineering Construction Commission for a long time, I still submitted a report on the establishment of overseas support bases as soon as possible. Without a fulcrum that is sufficiently usable, even if we have more than a dozen aircraft carrier battle groups, our ocean-going combat capabilities will be greatly limited. ”

"On the basis of building overseas support bases, the problem of insufficient strength of the Marine Corps has become more and more prominent. Li Mu said this, looked at Gao Hai, and said, "The final combat mission of our army back then has changed from the current first mission, and it is no longer appropriate for the Marine Corps to hang under the fleet." ”

The original intention of the formation of the Chinese Marine Corps was to accomplish the great cause of reunification, including all the coastal army field units from Jiangsu to Guangxi.

Now that the situation has undergone major changes, the accomplishment of the great cause of reunification is no longer the only mission of the armed forces, but it is still the most important mission.

Gao Hai smiled and said, "Down, I'm not a careful person. ”

Of the three major fleets, only the Third Fleet has marines, and the Chinese Marine Corps actually refers to the two marine brigades under the jurisdiction of the Third Fleet.

Li Mu smiled a little embarrassedly and said, "The Marine Corps will be upgraded, from the subordinate of the fleet to the subordinate of the Navy Command, and the Marine Corps Command will be established, and it will be assigned to the three major fleets according to the needs, but the third fleet is still the main allocation object. ”

"Go on. Commander Hai's expression didn't change much, and he pointed at Li Mu.

Li Mudao, "Guan Haiyang informed me of the decision, but I found that the specific plan for the expansion has not yet been decided. ”

"Yes, it's still being studied and discussed, and that's why I'm looking for you to come over and talk. "Takakaido.

Li Mu said bluntly, "When I was engaged in research on the organization and reform of the army units in the Continental Academy, my views were very clear. The best option for the Marine Corps is to become an independent army and become independent from the navy. In the past few years, I have gained some personal practical experience, and my thinking has changed a little. Forming an independent army is not in line with our actual situation, so I am in favor of upgrading only the rank of the Marine Corps, and still being within the scope of the Navy. As for the scale, I personally believe that in 10 years, it will need to be expanded to at least 50,000 standing troops to cope with the pressure of safeguarding national interests overseas. There is not much difference between the current Marine Corps and the Army's amphibious infantry, which actually shows that there is a lot of room for improvement in the way the Marine Corps is organized and trained. ”

"Drawing on the establishment method of the army's new-type troops, a number of combat brigades will be formed, supplemented by a number of support brigades, and they will be assigned to the three major fleets according to needs. In my opinion, five fully staffed combat brigades and three support brigades will barely meet the needs of the next decade. In order to carry out the construction of the 'two nos,' the troops do not need to be replenished in wartime, they do not need to go through training in battle, and they can fight when they are completely established in wartime. At the very least, it is necessary to ensure that it has 80 percent combat effectiveness at all times. ”

Speaking of this, Li Mu stopped for a while, he had to see the response of the two leaders.

Maintaining 80 percent combat effectiveness on a daily basis is definitely a very high requirement.

(End of chapter)