The French military attache in China really came, and it came very suddenly, because there was no stop in G City in his original itinerary, and at most the plane he was taking was just a suspension of refueling in G City.

As soon as he heard that the mountains and rivers of G City were unique in the world, he directly proposed to the Chinese officials who accompanied him that he wanted to go to G City to enjoy the picturesque scenery of the mountains and rivers.

The reason why the Chinese officials accompanying the French Martial Arts Embassy in China are subordinate to the Armament Bureau of the General Staff Headquarters, and the reason why they are not accompanied by the usual officials of the Foreign Affairs Bureau is that the Central Military Commission intends to import a batch of advanced weapons and equipment from France.

These include advanced anti-aircraft missiles, radar search systems, integrated command systems, helicopter landing assistance systems, and advanced sonar systems.

The vast majority of them are Navy-related equipment.

The reason for this is that the navy has been standing still for more than 10 years, and it has reached the point where it cannot be replaced; second, the military was stimulated by last year's Anglo-Argentine war and found that its navy had long since lagged behind the times and could hardly shoulder the task of military struggle in the new era.

Therefore, they are ready to take advantage of the favorable opportunity when relations with Western countries are still in the honeymoon period, and under limited conditions, improve the weapons and equipment of the navy.

However, China's initial partner was not France, but the United Kingdom, a traditional naval power, and the two sides began to engage in contact in late 1980 and made substantial progress in the following year.

That is the British use of its own equipment of the Type 42 missile destroyer technology to carry out a deep modification of the "Luda" class missile destroyer equipped by China.

Not only will the ship's old electronic equipment copying the Soviet Union be replaced with a new model equivalent to the Type 42 missile destroyer, but it will also be equipped with Britain's latest anti-aircraft weapon, the "Sea Javelin" air defense missile, plus an internal integrated electronic command system and helicopter take-off and landing equipment.

Once completed, this guided missile destroyer, codenamed 051S, will become China's first missile destroyer with the technical level of the 80s.

Because of this, both the relevant leaders of the Military Commission and the leading groups of the Navy have ardent hopes for the 051S, and even some design units have begun to redesign the Type 051 destroyer.

However, contrary to expectations, the British side refused to make concessions on price, and in the face of high purchase prices, the Chinese side, which was eager to break a penny into a few petals, could only be discouraged.

In this way, the two sides talked and talked for more than half a year, and finally was completely destroyed by a naval battle of Anglo-Argentine Matsushima, because during the war, the Sheffield, the lead ship of Type 42, was sent directly to the bottom of the South Atlantic by Argentina with a Exocet missile.

The Chinese side took a look, okay, I thought I wanted an invincible king, but it turned out to be a bronze that was directly shot into the soul, you British are embarrassed to ask for a high price, and we don't have the courage to ask for it home.

So 051S was so cold treated by both sides, and it was over.

However, the termination of cooperation with the British did not mean that the development of naval equipment would stop, and it was at this time that the French, who had always competed with British defense companies, took the initiative to come to the door and sell their weapons and equipment to the Chinese.

The romantic French were much more flexible than the British, and they were known for their varied sales tactics when it came to arms sales.

Therefore, in response to the actual situation of the Chinese, the French quickly gave a sales strategy that does not limit the number of purchases, the selection of equipment technology is determined by the user, and the accessories and the whole machine are arbitrarily selected, in a word, as long as you Chinese come to buy, I wholesale and retail are all OK.

China, which was originally shy in its pockets, saw that it still had such a good thing, and naturally wanted to talk to the French.

As a result, the two countries began to engage in contact in May 1982, and at the end of the year, they entered into substantive negotiations, and in order to better promote China's intention to purchase equipment, France was replaced by Rear Admiral Jean Luyère, who was born in the navy, as the new military attaché in China in November 1982.

On the surface, Major General Luyère left Beijing to receive an invitation from the French Consulate General in Yuecheng to lay the foundation stone for the new consulate, but in fact he bypassed the big dye vat in Beijing and went to discuss the specific details of equipment procurement with the Chinese side.

After several days of bargaining, the two sides reached an agreement on the general direction, but there were great differences in the specific details, which made the negotiators on both sides very tired, especially Major General Luyère, who was accustomed to living a drunken life in Paris, and wanted to relax.

Therefore, as soon as I heard that the scenery of G city was good, I didn't want to appreciate it, but the Chinese side did not refuse, so I immediately contacted G city to do a good job of reception.

When I saw the telegram sent by the province asking for a high-standard reception of the French military attache in China, several leaders were a little confused, I don't know how they didn't know how to receive foreign guests, the problem is that the boat visiting the G River has not yet been officially accepted, what should I do if something happens?

But if you don't use a newly-built cruise ship, there will be no motor boat in G City except for bamboo rafts.

The leaders who were still in G City were not the kind of dogmatic people with rigid thinking, so after some communication and liaison between the province and the city, the military and the localities, G City finally came up with a guarantee plan similar to an emergency plan.

That is, led by Professor Qin Wentong of the Han'e Shipyard, two naval technical officers as the backbone, with a number of technicians and ship maintenance personnel, formed a joint support group, stationed in the newly built cruise ship of G that had just arrived, and assisted the personnel of the Endeavor Factory on board to do a good job in the emergency response work of the cruise ship.

For this reason, the leaders of the GD Military District, who were holding a meeting in G City, also personally gave a death order to the two participating naval technical officers, making sure to ensure that the ship could sail out and drive back.

The two technical officers of the navy carried out the orders of their superiors quite thoroughly, and just after lunch, they came to the Zhulin Wharf from the guest house where they attended, and after showing their work cards and letters of introduction, they went directly down to the engine room under the stunned eyes of Meng Jianye and others, and when they saw the two diesel engines tightly wrapped in noise-reducing shells, the brows of the two people couldn't help but wrinkle at the same time.

One of the tall men turned his head to look at Meng Jianye and the others who were following him, and asked expressionlessly, "Who is your person in charge?"

Meng Jianye looked left and right and found that he was the highest assistant to the factory director, so he took a step forward: "I!"

"Find a few people to dismantle the shell, and cover such a thing, so you are not afraid that the engine will overheat and malfunction?" The tall officer spoke vigorously, as if Meng Jianye and the others were sailors on his ship, and they should have been commanded by him by nature.

However, Meng Jianye did not move, but patiently explained: "We have installed an airflow port on it, so we don't need to worry about the engine overheating, not to mention that this shell has the function of blocking engine noise, and rashly removing it will be unfavorable to the noise index of the whole ship!"

"Comprehensive noise index 65 decibels?" At this time, the tall officer did not speak, but it was the short officer with thick eyebrows and big eyes who spoke, but his words were polite, but it was uncomfortable to hear: "Okay, little comrade, Peng Jun and I have been old engineers for more than ten years, and it is the first time I have seen such a bluffing index."

I advise you to listen to us, dismantle the shell, and not tighten a few more decibels, if the ship's power fails, causing the reception task to go wrong, it will not be good for you or me. ”