Anti-Japanese War: I have a million soldiers and you call me a division commander?

"Ah for what?"

Seeing the shocked expressions of his three partners, Chu Feng smiled brightly and couldn't help asking, "What's wrong? Didn't I say it clearly enough? Didn't you hear it clearly?"

"How about I say it again?"

After hearing Chu Feng's teasing, the three partners finally recovered from this extremely shocking information.

"Commander, is that true?"

"Is there really an aircraft carrier, five frigates? And a large transport ship?"

"That's nearly 30,000 tons in total?!"

Li Mingqiang was the first to react. He looked at Chu Feng with excitement, agitation, disbelief and confusion, and asked anxiously. As the questions came out, expectation replaced other emotions on his face.

"Ok!"

Hearing Li Mingqiang's question, Chu Feng smiled and nodded in response to the puzzled looks from Wang Tiezhu and Ge Dayong, saying, "That's right!"

"Oh, right, it's not just warships, there's also a group of carrier-based aircraft. They're currently with the 1st Air Brigade. Once the fleet arrives, they'll board the aircraft carrier."

After getting Chu Feng's confirmation, the expressions on the faces of the three partners changed again. When everything calmed down, they completely accepted the news.

The three people finally couldn't bear it anymore. They started shouting wildly with trembling hands to vent their excitement.

"warship!!!"

“Oh my god!!! Oh my god!!!”

"Our navy, 30,000 tons, 30,000 tons!"

"..."

Because they were too excited, the three people's voices were a little sharp, as if they were screaming.

Chu Feng did not stop the three people from being excited, but just watched with a smile.

"And there's an aircraft carrier. Even if it's a small-tonnage aircraft carrier, it's still an aircraft carrier!"

"There are five more frigates!"

"Before the outbreak of the full-scale war of resistance against Japan, the total tonnage of the Kuomintang navy was only 60,000 tons. The largest of them was the 4300-ton Haiqi cruiser, which was nearly 40 years old and belonged to the grandfather generation." Li Mingqiang!

As Li Mingqiang finished speaking, Wang Tiezhu followed up, "Yes, yes, the other main warships of the Nationalist Navy are all cruisers of around 2526 tons, such as the Ninghai cruiser."

"Even in our grandfather's generation, there weren't many cruisers like the Haiqi and Ninghai."

"All the warships combined, there are more than 60 of them. It sounds like a lot, but if you calculate the total tonnage, you'll realize how poor it is!"

At this point, Wang Tiezhu couldn't help but shake his head and sigh, saying, "The quality is poor. They are all old ships with low speed and weak firepower."

"Even if we remove the 10,000-ton transport ship, the three minelayers, and the motorboat, the tonnage of our main battleships will reach 16,000 tons."

"I was looking up some information at the military academy, and when I saw this, I felt really sad. You know, our total coastline is 3.2 kilometers, and the ocean area is over 300 million square kilometers."

"We have such a long coastline and so much ocean, but we only have so many naval vessels."

Wang Tiezhu's words had a silencing effect, and everyone fell silent.

"But that's all in the past!"

After more than ten seconds, Ge Dayong's voice rang out: "Our Independent 1st Division has begun to develop its navy."

"Our division commander has nearly 30,000 tons of warships and 1530 naval soldiers and officers."

"This is the foundation we've laid. The navy may be weak now, but we have the foundation. Give us ten years to develop."

"Even if it's not as good as the Japanese's terrifying 1.2 million tons, it will definitely grow and be more than the Nationalist government's 60,000 tons."

"Let's use a phrase often used by our division commander to set a small goal for the Navy. Give the Navy and us ten years to develop. We will increase the Navy's total tonnage to 13 tons, increasing by 1 tons per year."

After hearing what Ge Dayong said, Wang Tiezhu and Li Mingqiang nodded in agreement.

"You three, is that all you have to be brave?"

Chu Feng couldn't sit still anymore, looking at his three partners in disbelief: "Ten years, an increase of 100,000 tons? Who are you looking down on?"

As soon as Chu Feng said this, his three partners looked at him in confusion.

"Commander, ten years and one hundred thousand tons is a lot!" Wang Tiezhu argued, "We can't produce it ourselves right now. If we buy it from outside, how much will it cost?"

"Should we still develop our own industry? The population of the northern border region is now in the tens of millions. Will it exceed 100 million in ten years?"

"In another year, our army will have 500,000 soldiers. In ten years, the army will have 2 to 3 million soldiers."

"We have to fight the Japanese, develop industry, support millions of troops, and feed hundreds of millions of civilians. How can we afford to develop a navy?"

As soon as Wang Tiezhu finished speaking, he received unanimous agreement from the other two partners.

"That's right, Commander. Ten thousand tons a year is a lot!"

"And we want quality over quantity. If only we could have another real 10,000-ton aircraft carrier, two more battleships, and a dozen 3,000-4,000-ton destroyers."

"Our navy has a place in the world."

"..."

Hearing his partners' cautious words, he felt a little distressed. Even in a dream, they wouldn't dare to be so presumptuous.

"listen to me!"

Chu Feng immediately interrupted his partners rudely. He looked directly at his three partners and said in an unquestionable tone, "Increase 100,000 tons in two years instead of ten!"

"As for ten years from now? Not only will we build the world's largest shipyard, but we will also become the number one navy in Asia, defeating the Japanese and surpassing their 120 million tons."

At this point, Chu Feng held up three fingers and said, "Let me set a small goal: 300 million tons!"

"This is just the tonnage of surface ships."

"We also need to vigorously develop submarines. We can have fewer of them, more than 500 of various types, with a total tonnage of 50 tons."