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    On December 24, 1913, while the Western world was celebrating the annual Christmas, the Imperial Emperor Wang Yuze went to the General Staff Headquarters and attended a meeting attended by important generals from all branches of the military!  Although the exchanges between China and the Western world are getting closer and closer, traditional Chinese people are not interested in Western festivals.  This is due to Wang Yuze's order to protect traditional culture. While absorbing advanced Western technology, he also filtered out some of the dross to prevent the empire from opening up too much!

    At the same time, China also began to export culture to foreign countries.  In addition to East Asia, which has been influenced by China for thousands of years, the Americas and the Middle East have also been influenced by Chinese culture.  Although the power of this kind of cultural aggression has not yet been demonstrated, its impact is undoubtedly more serious and far-reaching than military aggression!

    The meeting was scheduled to be held at 9:30 a.m., and Wang Yuze arrived at the General Staff Headquarters on time!  At this time, all the imperial military officials attending the meeting had arrived.  In addition to the heads of the General Staff, the Ministry of the Army, the Ministry of the Navy and the Ministry of Defense, the people who participated in this meeting also participated in this meeting: the army group commanders, the navy fleet commanders and the air force deputy commanders.  s meeting!  It can be seen how important this meeting is!

    After Wang Yuze arrived, the meeting officially began.  At this meeting, Wang Yuze did not give too many instructions. Instead, he instructed Marshal Cai Yun, Chief of the General Staff, and the meeting officially began!  This time, he mainly came with his ears!  After the promotion ceremony half a month ago, he asked the heads of various departments and services to start preparing development plans for each service in the next five years!  And these development plans are ultimately aimed at the war with Germany that is about to break out in a few years!

    Military reform is a very important task. After every war, China will conduct post-war summaries and adjust the military based on the problems discovered during the war to ensure that the military will be more powerful in the next war.  !  In this world war, although China won the world war, it also exposed many problems!  These problems have caused a lot of damage to the Chinese army.  If these problems cannot be solved before the next war breaks out, perhaps in future wars, the Chinese army will have to pay more for this!  What Wang Yuze has to do is to solve these problems before a new war breaks out!

    "Your Majesty, the General Staff has conducted a detailed analysis of this war! Although the combat power of the empire's army, navy and air force can now be regarded as the best in the world! However, there are still many areas for improvement! Among them  , as for the Army, the main group army has strong combat capabilities, but the newly formed infantry divisions have relatively weak combat capabilities and can only undertake secondary combat tasks! The armored forces formed by the Army played an extremely powerful role in this war.  role. But at the same time, due to performance and tactical reasons, the combat effectiveness of the armored forces needs to be further explored! Therefore, the General Staff recommends that the Army focus on strengthening the construction of armored forces and mechanized forces in the next few years! At the same time, as  With the further expansion of the empire's territory and colonies, the size of the empire's standing army also needs to be further expanded! Otherwise, it will be impossible to defend the empire's huge territory and overseas colonies!

    As for the Navy, the number of battleships currently owned by the Navy has reached more than 50, ranking first in the world!  However, a large part of them are old battleships. The General Staff recommends that the Navy eliminate a number of old battleships and leave behind new battleships with powerful firepower.  In addition, the power of the aircraft carrier was also fully demonstrated in this battle.  In the future, aircraft carriers, as well as the composition and tactics of fleets formed with aircraft carriers as the core, etc.!  All need to be summarized in the next few years!  Finally, in addition to the carrier-based aircraft force, the navy also needs to further strengthen its shore-based aviation force.

    As for the Air Force, due to the performance of current aircraft, most of the Air Force¡¯s fighters are tactical aircraft with shorter ranges!  It is difficult for these tactical aircraft to carry out the important task of delivering a devastating blow to the enemy!  Therefore, in the future, the Air Force needs to establish a strike force based on strategic aircraft with longer range and larger bomb load!  The future functions of the air force also need to be transformed from assisting the army or navy in attacking the enemy to conducting strategic strikes against the enemy.  Of course, this requires us to develop a newer aircraft!  However, this is also a suggestion from the General Staff for the future development of the Air Force!  "Marshal Cai Yun, Chief of General Staff said!

    Wang Yuze deeply agrees with the recommendations of the General Staff Headquarters!  The Army focuses on the construction of armored forces and mechanized forces.  The navy has an aircraft carrier fleet as its core, supplemented by battleships and submarines.  The Air Force focuses on establishing strategic strike forces and defeating a country through long-term air strikes!  These are the development directions of the army, navy and air force of the future empire!

    "What do the various services have to do with this??Opinion?  "Wang Yuze asked. The General Staff just gave a directional suggestion, and the specific implementation plan still requires each military service to be responsible! Of course, Wang Yuze also believes that in this war, each military service will also be responsible.  Understand their respective shortcomings. In the next few years, it is the time for each military service to work hard to change these shortcomings!

    "Your Majesty, the Army very much agrees with the suggestions put forward by the General Staff! In this war, although the Army achieved a major victory, it also showed many problems! The Army Ministry has begun to formulate solutions based on these problems.  plan! In view of the current expansion of the empire's territory and colonies, the existing 11 army groups as the main force are no longer able to meet the empire's defense needs. In addition, the newly formed infantry divisions have relatively weak combat effectiveness. Therefore, the Army plans to move the group armies to  The number will be increased to about 20! In addition, the training of the imperial reserve forces will be strengthened to ensure that after the new troops are formed, they can exert a more powerful force! In addition, the Ministry of War will strengthen the construction of armored forces and mechanized forces, and in each  The group army has formed a model with armored forces as the core and mechanized forces as an important component. However, the military expenditures of armored forces and mechanized units are several times that of infantry units. If the army's military expenditures cannot be increased, it will be difficult to carry out the reform of the army!  Finally, the Army requested to establish its own aviation force. In this war, the Army relied heavily on the support of the Air Force when it attacked! However, due to various reasons, the Army could not receive support in time when it attacked! Therefore, the Army established a direct air force  The aviation force is imperative!" Army Minister Marshal Zhao Bowen said!  As early as the late war, the Army proposed to form a directly affiliated Army Aviation Force. However, due to the opposition of the Air Force and the unwillingness of the Emperor Wang Yuze to have the Army and the Air Force compete for power during the war, this issue was temporarily shelved!  Now that the war is over, the Army has had enough time to solve this problem!

    Emperor Wang Yuze agreed with the views raised by Army Minister Marshal Zhao Bowen.  Armored and mechanized forces cost the military three to five times that of infantry.  Of course, their combat effectiveness is far beyond what the infantry troops can match!  From the bottom of his heart, Wang Yuze supports the army's construction of mechanized troops. However, due to the financial resources of the empire, it is obviously unrealistic to turn all army troops into mechanized troops!  Therefore, Wang Yuze plans to build the army into a force with mechanized troops as the fist, motorized troops as the main force, and infantry troops as the supplement!  In five years, the transformation should be initially completed!  In this case, when the next war breaks out, the army's combat power will increase explosively.  In addition, he supports the Army's establishment of its own aviation force!  There is a coordination problem between the Air Force and the Army!  Although the Air Force often cooperates with the Army's actions, this is far less convenient than the Army having its own aviation force!  The Army Aviation, composed of dive bombers, fighter jets and attack aircraft, can provide more direct fire support for the Army when it attacks, which will help improve the Army's attack power!  Especially when countries begin to vigorously develop armored forces, the attack power of air power against enemy armored forces will be even more powerful!

    "Your Majesty, the Navy plans to eliminate all battleships with a caliber of 305 mm. In addition, only the 'Jianghe-class' heavy cruisers, 'Ningbo-class' light cruisers and 'Fuqing-class' destroyers will be retained among the heavy cruisers, light cruisers and destroyers.  The previous batches of heavy cruisers, light cruisers and destroyers will be sold to friendly countries or directly dismantled! At the same time, the Navy will also design various types of warships for the next level to ensure that when the next war breaks out,  New warships will become the main force! Finally, the Navy will plan to form a new fleet with aircraft carriers as the core. And in the next few years, we will explore a set of effective new tactics!" said Navy Minister Zhang Cheng!

    Wang Yuze nodded. Aircraft carriers will undoubtedly become the protagonist of naval battles. Although battleships are still useful under certain conditions, they are no longer the main force of naval battles!

    "Your Majesty, the Air Force will focus on the development of long-range fighters and heavy bombers in the next few years! Ensure that in the next war, the Air Force can have a long-range strategic strike force!" said Marshal Long Feiyu, Minister of Space!  If a country can be defeated by strategic bombing alone, this is undoubtedly what the Air Force wants to see!  (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!)
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