Chapter 570: Bad News

When the "Thunderbolt" torpedo attack plane flew over, Bai Zhizhan was bragging to Li Mingbo, fearing that he would be attacked by the enemy at night.

When the torpedo plane landed and saw the people coming up from below, Bai Zhizhan immediately tightened his brows.

It turned out to be Zheng Jiangming!

What is he doing in the fleet?

Also, it's almost early in the morning, and if there is nothing particularly important, it will definitely not reach the carrier-based aircraft and risk landing at night.

Even the best pilots are not guaranteed to be able to land 100 percent on an aircraft carrier at night.

According to the statistics made by the Imperial Navy, the success rate of night landing has never exceeded 50 percent, and the probability of serious accidents is extremely high.

A few days ago, one "Suzaku" on a night patrol mission crashed on an aircraft carrier, but fortunately, two crew members were only slightly injured.

Li Mingbo also immediately thought of this and took the initiative to call the staff officers.

Just call on the bridge of the commander's ship, or order other staff officers, and Li Mingbo did this to avoid knowing things that should not be known.

Although he is the chief of staff of the fleet, Li Mingbo's right to be secretive is very low, and he does not have the right to know everything.

Zheng Jiangming rushed over overnight, there must be something very important, so important that it could not be known through the telegram, and he had to send a person that Bai Zhizhan absolutely trusted.

For this reason, Li Mingbo deliberately delayed for a while.

About fifteen minutes later, after Zhou Yongtao and other staff officers on leave returned, he briefly explained the situation, and then went to the officer's cafeteria below.

Zheng Jiangming was eating, and Bai Zhizhan's face was very ugly.

After seeing Li Mingbo, Zheng Jiangming just nodded.

"Nothing else, I'll go rest first. I've been exhausted all the way. ”

"I'll take you there."

Zheng Jiangming was not angry with Li Ming, and followed Li Mingbo out of the officer's restaurant.

Li Mingbo didn't see it either, and gave up his single cabin to Zheng Jiangming.

It was only after coming to the large aircraft carrier that Li Mingbo had his own cabin, and he used to live in a double cabin with Zhou Yongtao on the fleet aircraft carrier.

However, this single cabin has a low occupancy rate and is empty most of the time.

When he returned to the restaurant, Bai Zhizhan was still sitting there, his expression not improving in the slightest.

"Lao Zheng is also exact, before coming over, how should he ......"

"Our previous concerns were not unfounded."

Bai Zhizhan suddenly came out with a sentence, so that Li Mingbo couldn't touch the north at all.

After letting Li Mingbo sit down, Bai Zhizhan told the news brought by Zheng Jiangming.

Just this month, a few days to be exact, Shoufu Xue Yuanzheng used thunderous means to eradicate the largest collaborating traitor group within the empire in one fell swoop, arresting hundreds of spies serving the enemy country. The key point is that Song Jiaowen, the leader of the appeasement faction and Minister of Foreign Affairs, has already taken the blame and resigned, and the industrial and commercial group headed by the Song family has also suffered heavy losses. In just one month, the power structure in the empire was reshuffled.

All this has to do with the previous operation, which is the bombing of the northwest region of Austria.

In fact, that operation was a trap set against traitorous defectors.

Before that, Xue Yuanzheng instructed Liu Changxun to reveal the news of the preparation to bomb the northwest region of Austria to several of Song Jiaowen's cronies in the name of cooperation and the like.

What happened next just proved that it was these people who revealed the relevant information to the enemy.

The most important thing is that the Nuland fleet, which had been operating in the Guia Ocean before, appeared on the North Fanyan Ocean.

As for the specific situation, in fact, it is to convince the Nuland Federation that the Imperial Navy is using the shore-based aviation deployed on Socotra Island to support the combat operation of attacking the Kib fortress, and the two task forces have already sailed to the northeast Fanyan Ocean to look for a decisive battle there.

If the news had not been received in advance, but had not been sent to the Northern Fanyan Ocean before the Imperial Navy launched an attack, the Alliance would never have been able to launch an attack on the Northern Xuan region in November, that is, the Nuland fleet would not have been able to reach the Northern Sunset Ocean by that time anyway.

Following this clue, the Sixth Bureau also obtained a lot of relevant information, which can also be said to be evidence.

It can be seen from this that the bombing of the western part of Austria was to dig out the traitors inside.

From another point of view, it is also to eliminate hidden dangers.

Because there was no evidence directly pointing to Song Jiaowen, after he took the blame and resigned, Xue Yuanzheng did not embarrass him.

The current foreign minister is also a member of the Song family, although he is not as arrogant and domineering as Song Jiaowen, and is more low-key, but he is also more difficult to deal with.

As long as appeasement is not completely eradicated, internal threats will always exist.

Zheng Jiangming's visit has something to do with this.

Xue Yuanzheng has made arrangements again, and has already revealed the news that the two task forces entered the Narrow Sea in advance and launched an attack on the Xifan Canal in advance, and only Song Jiaowen knew the specific situation, so as long as the two fleets were attacked in the Narrow Sea, to be precise, the Bran army had already prepared, it could prove that Song Jiaowen revealed the news to the enemy through secret channels, and he could fundamentally eliminate the hidden danger.

Perhaps, it can also eradicate the Song family in one fell swoop.

Zheng Jiangming came to the fleet to tell Bai Zhizhan about these things in person.

Of course, it's not all bad news.

The previous actions in the Northeast Fanyan Ocean have proved that Liu Xiangzhen has not been assimilated by the appeasement faction, at least in major matters, so in this operation, Liu Xiangzhen can be fully trusted, that is, to cooperate with the 12th Task Force as much as possible.

In addition, the Sixth Bureau also sent a senior intelligence officer to the 12th Task Force with an order from Xue Yuanzheng.

When necessary, the intelligence officer would give orders directly to Liu Xiangzhen.

Although there has long been no talk of "overseer", the order of the first assistant has enough weight, and Liu Xiangzhen definitely does not dare to ignore it.

In any case, it will only take two days at most to get from the Bab el-Mandeb Strait to the Syvan Canal.

"So, by taking such a big risk and marching into the Shivan Canal ahead of schedule, we are actually serving those politicians who are vying for power?"

Bai Zhizhan was silent, he had never been very interested in the domestic struggle, or very disgusted, after all, it was an internal friction that outweighed the losses.

Li Mingbo didn't say any more, he knew that Bai Zhizhan hated these intrigues and tricks.

"We can't decide these things." At the end, Bai Zhizhan sighed, and then said: "Wait a minute, let Zhou Yongtao adjust tomorrow's deployment, ensure that the air defense fighters are lifted into the air before dawn, and contact the assault formation in front of them to prepare for air defense operations in advance." ”

"Don't withdraw the assault formation?"

"Not for now."

Bai Zhizhan said so, Li Mingbo didn't want to ask more.

After Bai Zhizhan left, he called Zhou Yongtao and the others over.

Although Bai Zhizhan did not give special orders, Li Mingbo knew the importance and did not tell Zhou Yongtao the news brought by Zheng Jiangming, and only asked Zhou Yongtao to make adjustments.

Zhou Yongtao is an understanding person, so he didn't ask Li Mingbo about it.

Subsequently, Li Mingbo personally gave an order to the captain of the "South Zhuhai" and the commander of the assault formation.

If anything, there are still a few hours before dawn, so let's start to strengthen our defenses now, and be sure enough to withstand the enemy's attack.

What's more, the 12th Task Force is just behind.

If Zheng Jiangming didn't talk nonsense, then after dawn, Liu Xiangzhen would send fighter jets over to provide cover for the 11th task force that came out.