The next morning, Luo Yue and Li Songchen went to the Navy Department and reported to the Executive Yuan. Zhou Weiying took Gao Jun to the hospital for a comprehensive physical examination to ensure that everything was foolproof.

Luo Yue came to the Navy Department and reported to the Navy Minister Shang Jinfeng.

Shang Jinfeng said: "Lieutenant General Luo, thank you for your hard work this time."

Luo Yue said: "Minister Shang, there is nothing to do. This war is actually very easy."

Shang Jinfeng nodded and said, "In the next few years, our navy's combat mission will not be good. It will probably be a period of rest and you can have a good rest. However, the Marine Corps also has tasks stationed in military ports and islands, so your work is not light!"

Luo Yue said: "These are things we should do, but the Marine Corps combat personnel organization has been completed, but the fleet organization and the warships they use are still extremely incomplete. I hope it can be improved within this period of time. Only in this way can we ensure that when the Marine Corps needs to fight, they can exert their complete combat effectiveness."

Shang Jinfeng said: "You can rest assured that Guan Gan Marine Corps warship configuration, Naval Staff, and Equipment Department have already formulated a preliminary plan. You can go back and take a look first. If there are any improvements, you can start construction immediately. In this phase of the shipbuilding plan, some of the warships are given to the Marine Corps."

As he said that, Shang Jinfeng took out a folder from the folder on the table and handed it to Luo Yue, and said, "Also, the Military Commission has also made a small change in the military rank system. Although it has not been officially approved, it is not much different. There is no big problem. It is just a bit of a fake. It is all covered in it, so you can also take a look first."

Luo Yue nodded, reached out to take the folder, and said goodbye to Shang Jinfeng and leave.

Back in his office, Luo Yue first looked at the new regulations of the military rank system. He originally divided the lieutenant general into two levels, and divided the lieutenant general into three levels, intermediate and advanced. In this way, the two levels of lieutenant general and general became five levels. Now all lieutenant generals and generals in the People's Army are designated as primary levels. However, such a level division does not involve positions, salary, pensions, etc., as well as external communication levels, and is only a distinction between officer qualifications.

It turns out that since veteran officers were generally young and wars were almost constant after the establishment of the East China Government, the ranks of veteran officers were generally promoted very quickly. For example, Luo Yue was less than 35 years old and was promoted to lieutenant generals, while other lieutenant generals of the People's Army were basically under 40 years old. If this trend continues, in less than 10 years, a large number of generals under 50 will appear in the People's Army, even generals and marshals. Although the latter two levels are only honorary ranks, they will generally be awarded only after they retire or retire to the second line.

So after discussion, the Military Commission decided to subdivided the two ranks of the Lieutenant General and General into five levels. In this way, the generals and officers still have room for promotion after being promoted to Lieutenant General. However, this regulation is only an internal proposal and has not been officially announced and implemented. However, Luo Yue's level is now qualified to obtain this information in advance.

Of course, even if this proposal is passed and officially implemented, Luo Yue's military rank is junior lieutenant general, but this has little impact on Luo Yue, because Luo Yue's position and salary have not changed, and he is still at the level of lieutenant general at the external communication level. The only impact is that the speed of promotion will slow down in the future. The next time he makes merit and advances, he can only be promoted to a senior lieutenant general. Therefore, two opportunities to advance to become an admiral are needed, which will take more time.

However, Luo Yue is still young now and has enough time to advance to a higher military rank in the future. Therefore, he has no objection to this proposal. It is enough to know that this is the case. What he is really interested in is the preliminary plan for the Marine Corps warship configuration plan.

The Marine Corps' warship configuration is now divided into three main types, one is the landing ship, which is also the main type of ship of the Marine Corps. After all, landing operations are one of the main combat functions of the Marine Corps, while the other two are escort warships and fire support warships, which serve as the auxiliary combat power of the Marine Corps.

According to the Navy Staff and Equipment Department's plan, landing ships are uniquely organized by the Marine Corps and of course they need to be built separately, but escort warships and fire support warships are common to the Navy. That is, escort warships and fire support warships are both used in the Navy's warships, so that they can be arranged and organized in each other during combat. If you need to conduct landing operations, naval cruisers or destroyers can be organized into the Marine Corps as escort warships, or naval battleships and armored cruisers can be organized into the Marine Corps as fire support warships. At the same time, when naval combat needs, escort warships and fire support warships can also be drawn to fight with the Navy fleet. In this way, warships can be mutually compatible, resources can be saved, investment can be reduced, and existing warships can be fully utilized.

Luo Yue had no objection to this. The auxiliary warships equipped by the Marine Corps are actually naval warships, but they are all warships eliminated by the Navy. They are very old and are not easy to use. Luo Yue did not oppose the generalization of the Marine Corps' auxiliary warships and naval forces, because this was common in old time and space. For example, although the US Marine Corps has its own amphibious assault ships, the warships escorted the amphibious assault ships are all naval warships. Sometimes the US Marine Corps aircraft have to borrow the naval aircraft carrier platform to use. But Luo Yue hopes that the general ones will be used as the main ship type, rather than using old warships.

Now the Marine Corps has a total of 12 beach landing ships with a displacement of about 1,000 tons. They can transport a battalion of troops or a 75mm field artillery company directly to the beachhead at one time. In the Far East War, these 12 landing ships did play a major role and are an important guarantee for the Marine Corps to achieve a series of landing operations.

However, this batch of beach landing ships itself has certain experimental properties, and many shortcomings have been exposed in combat. The biggest shortcoming is that the tonnage is too small, only about 1,000 tons. Not only can it carry troops and have limited equipment and weapons, but there are no soldiers dormitories on the ship, making it difficult to enter the ocean landing war. Of course, the construction of this batch of beach landing ships is also for emergency response, mainly to deal with the Far East War. Whether it is landing in Lushun, San Vladivostok or later on the Korean Peninsula, Japan's main island is in the offshore direction, so it is basically enough. The weakness of not being able to fight from the ocean is not very obvious.

However, if the Marine Corps wants to develop, it must have ocean-going landing combat capabilities, because it naturally requires larger tonnage and more complete beach landing ships. Therefore, the technical department has also specially designed a brand-new beach landing ship. The initial plan is to have a displacement of 2,500-3,000 tons, and can carry a combat battalion and fire support troops, mortar troops, or a complete 75mm field artillery battalion, which is to carry a larger caliber artillery force, and there are special soldiers dormitories on the warships, which can carry long-term and long-distance ocean-going combat.

In addition, the beach landing ship has relatively strict requirements on the landing beach. It can only be used on beaches with flat terrain and no reefs. However, such beaches only account for about 50%, which greatly limits the combat range of the beach landing ship. Therefore, the Marine Corps also needs a type of landing ship that can land on complex beaches.

Among the warships that cross, the dock landing ship Baishan is such a warship. At the tail of the Changbaishan ship, there is a huge docking cabin that can carry 4 Type 726 Bison air mattress landing craft, and the garage can also carry up to 40 Type 05 amphibious vehicles. You can open the tailgate outside the territorial waters, put the sea water into the dock, and then release the air mattress landing craft or amphibious combat vehicle to carry out landing operations. Such a landing combat mode can reduce the risk of landing ships, and can also carry landing operations on beaches with various complex terrain.

With the current technical level of this era, we naturally cannot build a steam pad landing craft and amphibious tank, but the combat mode of this dock landing can be imitated. Therefore, the Technology Department also designed a dock landing ship with a displacement of between 8,000 and 10,000 tons and can carry 20 landing craft. Each landing craft has a load of 6 tons and a draft of less than 1 meter deep. It can carry 50 soldiers or two 75mm field guns.

Such a dock landing ship can transport one combat battalion and fire support troops, mortar troops, or a complete 75mm field artillery battalion to ashore at one time. Although the troop delivery capability is similar to that of the new beach landing ship, the combat range is wider and can carry out landing operations on more than 90% of the beach landing ships, and the survival ability of warships is stronger, which is far greater than that of the beach landing ships.

Of course, the design of these two new types of professional warships is only the first draft. There are only a few conceptual drawings. The various parameters of the warship are not accurate enough. In addition, the various technical and tactical indicators are not clear enough. This also requires deep communication and communication between technicians and the Marine Corps, and the continuous deepening of the drawings.
Chapter completed!