After the assessment began, the officers and men of the 1st Battalion, led by Wesley, were first inspected, and the basic queues, shooting, fighting, obstacle runs, etc., and then began the subjects of armed swimming.
"It's an armed swim with 30 kilograms of equipment, a minimum of five kilometers, and it's in the sea."
Wesley didn't participate, but gave a lecture, which is not a traditional subject, after all.
"Is it necessary?"
the president asked.
"Of course, for example, when we land on one island after another, we may not have a good landing place, so the first batch of soldiers needs to infiltrate in this way, especially at night, and the effect of a brigade of six battalions of soldiers landing on the islands is conceivable.
Then after the landing, we start fighting, clearing small areas and then expanding, at this time our fleet is transporting land to the island, then everything becomes much easier, and in addition, you can sneak up on the back of the enemy, which is a new tactic. ” "Yes, yes, yes, it's good."
Pershing said happily that as a soldier, he still has a vision.
"Then should it be assigned to the Navy?"
proposed William Benson again.
"That can't be."
Pershing yelled, and the two were about to start arguing again, but Wesley stopped them.
"The two of you don't need to quarrel, my battalion should not have a fixed belonging, after all, the landing needs to cooperate with the navy, and then there will be a battle on land, and it is still in the experimental stage, and we will study this problem in the future, after all, we also need some special equipment, such as landing craft and landing ships."
"What's that?"
everyone asked curiously.
"Special landing ships, specially used for landing, I already have shooting, if this assessment passes, then I will place an order to start producing some, and then use it for training use."
"New ships," asked William Benson.
"Yes, I have now designed some auxiliary ships, such as hospital ships, amphibious landing ships, landing craft, etc., these are very useful auxiliary ships, which provide reliable support for the navy and landing forces, but now is not the time to manufacture, at present we need to meet the needs of our two main fleets, and then produce them."
"So how many capital warships do you think we'll need?"
the president asked.
"First of all, we don't need to send the navy in this war, we should let the British navy lose more, which is beneficial to us, if we can develop like the Pacific in the early stage of the war, then eight battleships are enough, because there are heavy cruisers to assist, enough to deter the Pacific direction, and after the First World War, Britain will inevitably raise the issue of restricting the development of the navies of various countries, and they can't afford to consume it."
"Makes sense, provided that the war lasts for a long time."
"In a few months, I will know that the current strategic reserves of the United Kingdom can only last for a few months, and a large number of orders will come soon, but it is necessary to organize production, and we must not let the parliamentary guys mess around and negotiate directly with the country-to-country model."
The president looked at Wesley and asked, "So how many orders are you going to get?"
"I don't need it, what they need is rifles and bullets that I can't produce, so I just concentrate on preparing them for the army, and my transport company will get the business."
Wesley said with a smile.
"No wonder you got such a big shipping company and rented ports in England and France."
Everyone suddenly realized that this Mr.
Major was going to make a lot of war money, and he had a lot of companies, and he would always make money, especially steel.
The president looked at Wesley and asked, "So where is the entry point for us to get involved in Asia?"
"Qingdao."
Wesley said directly, "This is occupied by Germany, but at the beginning of the battle they completely lost here, Japan will inevitably jump out, and China has no ability to compete, at this time we can participate as a neutral country, ask for escrow here, first organize a detachment here, I can let the shipyard speed up the progress, then four battleships and four heavy cruisers are enough to deter Japan and Britain, even if France joins, it doesn't matter." ” "Our warships really have that high combat power," the president asked.
"Yes, first of all, we have a complete advantage in the combat distance, although the 305 main gun is not the largest caliber now, but the double diameter is the longest, especially the agreed fire control system, the hit rate is also very high, we can completely hang the opponent to fight, and at the same time we can maintain high-speed navigation during the engagement, the power of the new armor-piercing projectile is experimented, Japan is not an opponent, if they dare to go to war, then directly destroy their fleet and surround their homeland."
I really hate it, did this young major cripple Japan, and the president hesitated for a moment and asked again: "What about the attitude of the British?"
"What attitude can Britain have now, and they dare to go to war with us for a Japanese is not worth it, especially after a few months, they will come directly to us to ask us to sell things to them, after the war we may not be able to get much benefit, Britain will inevitably and France, Russia to limit our development, so the war is the best time for us, you must know that Germany has a lot of islands in the Pacific Ocean, if we get these, then we can build a defensive barrier."
The attraction of this sentence is the greatest, as the president he thinks a lot, especially the importance of a sea barrier to the United States can be imagined, "The results of this assessment are very good, but I can only award you the rank of colonel, responsible for the formation of the first Marine Brigade, which will be increased in half a year, and I hope you can contribute at that time." ” "Yes, Mr.
President."
The results of the assessment are seen by everyone, this is the current front unit of the United States, which is not too much, and the US Army began a formal expansion plan, an army division officially represented 12,500 people, in addition to the three divisions of the experiment, directly increased the establishment of 75 divisions, all of which require full strength, and Wesley received a large number of orders.
Fortunately, he had already started to stockpile, and instead of rushing to expand production, he produced according to the plan in an orderly manner, and at the same time the production of battleships was accelerated, and heavy cruisers were delivered to the Navy for training.
The Navy once again placed orders for heavy patrols at other shipyards, and at the same time demanded that production be accelerated, and everything was prepared for war, and Wesley's language was confirmed again, and Japan declared war on Germany and put forward a claim to Tsingtao. t1706231537: