Chapter 506: Three Armies Expansion Plan
The navy, army and air force can be said to be what Chen Xi and Guo Hao care about most.
It is said to be all-round development, but everyone knows that fists are what need to be developed most.
As the saying goes, other people grow crops while I make guns, and other people are my granaries.
Moreover, history has proved countless times that only if one's fist is strong enough can one gain respect.
The Air Force is limited by the research and development progress of the Sky Garden and can only put it aside temporarily.
Chen Xi has seen the model. Strictly speaking, after some modification, it will look like a blimp in a science fiction movie. Currently, its flying speed and other issues are big problems. Overall, it is just an object that can float in the air.
Its overall power may not even be as good as that of the Flying Bear, but it has the advantage of being able to continue moving automatically. As long as it is not attacked, it can continue to absorb the essence of heaven and earth to stay suspended.
Those bigwigs of the Mohist School and the Zhang Family concentrate their efforts every day on overcoming the technical difficulties of blast furnaces, and perfecting the blast furnace construction technology while taking into account the essence of heaven and earth.
The current progress has reached three cubic meters, which is a very rapid progress. Chen Xi estimates that in a year, it may be able to reach five or six cubic meters. In that case, the speed of steelmaking and ironmaking can be much higher.
These people from the Mohist School are truly powerful. Chen Xi found it outrageous after seeing them.
The combination of mechanical technology and the essence of heaven and earth really has the flavor of the legendary instrument descending to the heavens.
Mechanical engineering does not necessarily use wood. The Mohists had already advanced to the level of human body refinement.
What interests Chen Xi the most is that when the human body reaches this level, it can effectively solve the problem of disability, which is the same as the effect of prosthetic limbs.
Unfortunately, the big guys of the Mohist School were too lazy to pay attention to Chen Xi. They only had one idea in mind now, which was to build a sky garden. All the others stayed away.
The army is impeccable. There are a lot of living big men in the Han Dynasty. Even if some of them cannot go to the battlefield, their experience and past are there, and the army can basically solve any problems they encounter.
Even if the problem cannot be solved directly, it may be solved indirectly without any difficulties.
The most worrying thing is the navy. There are basically no generals in the Central Plains who specialize in naval warfare.
Even before that, there was no concept of navy. At most, there were some naval forces. But no matter how turbulent the Yangtze River and the Yellow River were, how could they truly compare with the sea?
The sea is destined to be one of the future development directions, so the establishment of a navy is a top priority.
The reason why Sun Ce and his men were left on the coast of Qingzhou was to sharpen their understanding of the ocean.
But that is not enough, there are several aspects to the formation of a navy.
The first thing is naturally the commander. Sun Ce and Zhou Yu are a good match, but it is far from enough. The vastness of the ocean cannot be handled by one or two people.
Throughout the entire Han Dynasty, the only person who could be associated with naval warfare was Zheng He. However, this Zheng He had never sailed to the Western Ocean and had basically no experience. It can only be said that he was definitely talented in the ocean.
He was previously sent to Jianye by Guo Hao, and now he is constantly learning and improving.
With the addition of Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin, Xu Sheng, Huang Gai, Cai Mao... and a series of military generals, the basic team of the navy was established.
Moreover, Guo Hao mobilized the soldiers of Jingchu, which was known as the best navy in the Central Plains, to concentrate on training in the direction of Jianye.
However, these are secondary. The navy’s main focus is logistics and technological research and development.
After all, naval warfare is a mode of warfare that relies far more on the quality of the enemy than the army. Perhaps tactics and skills can indeed make up for the gap in equipment.
However, the gap between the wooden boats and the iron boats was obvious at a glance, and it was easy to hurt the morale of the soldiers.
If the navy is defeated, it basically means starting all over again.
Of course, in this world, there is another important factor, that is, aquatic races.
The water monsters in Japan left a deep impression on Guo Hao. Compared with humans, the ocean belongs to these marine creatures. Being able to move freely in the sea is really a major breakthrough for naval warfare.
Especially the complaints of Australian players against marine life, which is basically the best explanation of the power of marine life.
A tsunami caused by a giant Kun can destroy the whole of Australia. This destructive power is truly invincible.
Not to mention the ones far away, just talking about the ones nearby, the giant turtle is parked in Qingzhou. This kind of creature is indeed very unsuitable for naval battles.
Arakawa, Otakemaru, and Kujira, whom he had captured before, were all creatures of this kind. However, it was a pity that there were too few survivors of Otakemaru's maritime country, and it was estimated that they were unable to form a navy at present.
But we have finally achieved a breakthrough from nothing to something, at least in this regard it is not zero.
Now there is nothing they can do but let the navy grow slowly.
To put it bluntly, even if they build an aircraft carrier now and let the navy take it, the navy may not be able to exert its due combat effectiveness.
Even more extreme, without sufficient crew members and sufficient naval forces with technical experience, even if an aircraft carrier is built, it may be snatched away by the enemy.
This is not a joke. After all, there is a tactic in naval warfare called relay warfare, and with the assistance of these marine creatures, they cannot guarantee that the navy can withstand it.
But given the current half-baked level of the navy, to be honest, they are not very reassured. If they really want to unleash the combat effectiveness of the super ships, they have to wait until the navy is truly adapted to naval warfare.
Now the navy basically uses a fleet that can barely sail in the ocean. Only when there are real results will Chen Xi consider allocating resources to the navy.
But then again, although the Central Plains is an agricultural civilization, it has not without considering the oceans.
There were even sea attacks during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but they were abandoned because people didn't know about them later. To be honest, the ancient Chinese civilization has never had any weird or supernatural things.
Around 485 BC, the State of Wu and the State of Qi had a large-scale naval battle in the Yellow Sea. The recorded warships were more than 30 meters in size, and there were more than 100 ships involved in the battle, which already had some ocean-going capabilities.
However, later on, people on land became so stupid that for more than 700 years, all technological points were put into the army, and the navy's technology did not increase at all.
When Chen Xi took over, the ships on the Han side were still more than 30 meters long, and the largest ones were tower ships. What could be done?
There is no way around it. The ancient Chinese civilization is so brilliant that you can basically find the prototype of any event from ancient records.
Moreover, unlike the purely self-created history of the West, the Chinese history is basically traceable, and there are basically special evidences unearthed.
However, Chen Xi and Guo Hao were both very confident. After all, they had already started to develop the technology of aerial aircraft carriers, so what new thing could a water-based aircraft carrier be?
