Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

In fact, neither of the two combat ideas can be said to be right or wrong.

Lu Shaochuan is a typical continental army thinker, advocating that the army should be the main force and other services as supplements. He hopes that the empire can build an army with strong combat effectiveness around the army in the future.

This does not mean that only the army will be developed and other services will not be developed.

Lin Yi's thinking is just the opposite. He wants to build an imperial army that can develop balanced development among various arms.

What he wants is not only a strong army, but also a strong air force and navy.

Both of these ideas are actually feasible in Daxia.

After all, Daxia has a vast territory. This alone means that Daxia is destined to be a land-based country.

Since it is a country with land power, it is understandable to vigorously develop the army.

This is not like the John Empire. Its land area is not large, but it has a large number of overseas colonies, which is destined to be a maritime country.

In fact, such things as land and sea disputes have existed in Daxia for a long time. There were also fights between the two sides and they plundered each other's resources.

But both sides are still interested in taking control and have not made things too rigid, unlike an island country next door where the two sides have become incompatible.

If your army has it, our navy must have it.

This kind of fighting in Daxia is limited to the period of time when military expenditures are allocated every year. Once that period of time passes, the two sides begin to cooperate for a win-win situation again.

This is also an issue that Lin Yi and Zhao Xu knew the military was competing for, but did not intervene.

Now, as Lin Yi begins to take charge of the military, this kind of struggle will surely disappear in the near future.

Lin Yi didn't want his subordinates to start fighting for a little bit of military spending.

He had a simpler and more effective way.

In the future, he will ask for military expenditures from the Ministry of Household Affairs, and gradually increase them by 10% every year. After receiving the military expenditures, he will then distribute them according to the military expenditure plans reported by each service branch.

He will carefully investigate and review every plan, so everyone does not have to worry about Lin Yi having selfish motives when allocating military funds.

This is what Lin Yi did when he controlled the Longxiang Army, Yinglong Army and Silver Eagle Army.

After so many years, I haven't heard that Long Xiangjun and the others have any objections.

Besides, Lin Yi thought he had some face with the Ministry of Household Affairs. If there were several arms with good projects and the military budget was not enough, Lin Yi would naturally go to Qian Yi to borrow money with a shy face.

Let's borrow the military expenditure for the coming year first, and then pay less military expenditure in the second year.

Therefore, with Lin Yi's fair character and his status as a prince, everyone in the military department is quite willing to work under Lin Yi.

For Lin Yi to take charge of the military department, all parties in the military department expressed support.

After Lin Yi entered the military headquarters, he immediately promoted Lu Shaochuan to his deputy and put him in charge of the Imperial Army.

Now that Lin Yi has officially taken charge of the military headquarters, in order to have better and more convenient command in the future, he has officially integrated the Longxiang Army, Yinglong Army, and Silver Eagle Army into the command system of the military headquarters, and abolished the Longxiang Army. Yinglong Army Headquarters.

At the same time, the three armies were handed over to the command of the people below.

The person responsible for commanding the Imperial Army was Lin Yi's deputy, Imperial Army Minister Lu Shaochuan.

The person who commanded the Silver Eagle Army was Ding Yi, and Lin Yi promoted him from the Commander of the Silver Eagle Army to the position of Air Force Minister.

The Minister of the Navy was given to the elderly Sha Zhenhai. The former Lord of the Navy, Zeng Sen, has also retired and returned home.

Wang Hongchang succeeded Sha Zhenhai as the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Navy.

The Yinglong Army was officially renamed the Imperial Second Combined Fleet after Lin Yi took charge of the military, but the soldiers of the Second Combined Fleet still like to call themselves the Yinglong Army.

At the same time, in order to commend the Second Combined Fleet for its previous achievements, Lin Yi agreed to design a separate badge for the Second Combined Fleet to commend his achievements.

Lin Yi had seen the badge specially designed for the Second United Fleet. It was a dragon-shaped badge. Lin Yi thought it looked pretty and kept one for himself.

As for the original imperial fleet, it was also split by Lin Yi and became the first and third imperial combined fleets.

Since then, the three major combined fleets of the empire have been formally formed.

The First Combined Fleet mainly targets the sea area from Bohai Bay to Yizhou Island. Its main port is in Penglai, and it also has its own military ports in Jinghai and Yizhou Island.

The main defense area of ​​the Second Combined Fleet is the vast Nanyang area, controlling the sea area from the Empire's South China Sea to Malacca City, and at the same time taking into account the coastal defense of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

Due to the large area that needs to be defended, the Second Combined Fleet is the strongest among the three fleets and has the largest number of ships. Its main port is in Malacca City.

As for the Third Combined Fleet, also known as the Far East Fleet, their defensive waters mainly include the northern part of the empire, including the waters of the Far East and Sakura Kingdom, and the farthest end reaches the Bering Strait.

The main port of the Third Combined Fleet is also in Vladivostok.

If you look at the locations of the main ports of these three fleets on the map, you will find that two of the three main ports are in the northern seas.

At the same time, one from the south, one from the north, one from the east and one from the west were clamping down on Sakura Country. I don’t know whether this placement is intentional or unintentional.

As for the army, Longxiang Army has reservations about being merged into the military command system. Neither support nor oppose.

Lin Yi knew why Long Xiangjun was like this. To put it simply, Long Xiangjun felt that his performance was brilliant, and they had fought many tough battles in the empire over the years.

Therefore, they were a little worried and felt that the Long Xiang Army was a glorious title and should not be abolished.

Lin Yi also expressed helplessness at such an idea. After all, it is unreasonable for an empire and one head to command two armies.

Lin Yi didn't want to do the mustache thing, and he also wanted to divide the National Defense Force, the D Guards and so on.

Doing so is likely to result in poor command in large battles.

Although Lin Yi is now in charge of the military department, he can command the two armies very well.

What can happen later? Does his successor still have the ability to command the Donglong Xiang Army?

It was impossible for Lin Yi to plant such a hidden danger for the empire. He had already considered this when he established the Longxiang Army and would disband the Longxiang Army at the appropriate time.

As for commending Long Xiangjun's previous achievements, Lin Yi felt that he could use some other methods instead.

For example, let the Longxiang Army retain their previous military uniforms and flags, and design badges, armbands, etc. individually for them.

Lin Yi called the senior officials of Longxiang Army together and did some ideological work for them. Only then did these senior officials of Longxiang Army agree with Lin Yi's opinion.

In fact, it's not that these senior leaders of the Longxiang Army didn't know the harm their previous separation would bring to the empire, they just couldn't bear to bear the title of the Longxiang Army.

Now, Lin Yi has tried his best to retain the mark of Long Xiangjun. They, as subordinates, cannot make it too difficult for Lin Yi and can only agree to Lin Yi's proposal.