The next day, Tan Renhao personally rushed to the shipyard to inquire about repairing the battleship, and it was the aircraft carrier of the Second Task Force that was repaired in the dockyard of Apra Harbor, and Hao Dongjue also rushed over. What Tan Renhao needs to figure out is how much time it will take to repair the "Gaoyouhu" aircraft carrier, and how much time it will take to repair the "Longganhu" aircraft carrier and other warships. The reply he received was not very good, and the shipyard had to prioritize repairs to the two aircraft carriers of Task Force 2, so the repair and maintenance of the other ships had to be delayed.

"General, we will try our best to guarantee it, you can rest assured." The shipyard is directly managed by the navy, so the head of the shipyard is a navy engineer, or a colonel officer. "The battleship will definitely be repaired, and I guarantee that the 'Gaoyou Lake' will be able to rejoin the fleet before the other aircraft carrier reaches the port of Apra."

"Well, that's your promise!"

The middle-aged man smiled and nodded. "General, do you need to go somewhere else? We were about to tow the 'Weishan Lake' aircraft carrier into the dock, and General Hao Dongjue had just passed, do you want to go over? ”

"No, I'll wait for him here." Tan Renhao looked towards the huge dock, "You help me tell Hao Dongjue and ask him to come here to find me, if it's okay, I won't delay you any longer." ”

"Well, if you have anything else, come to me, my office is in the bungalow on the other side of the dock, and you can also call me."

Tan Renhao sent the middle-aged man away with a smile, he felt that this engineer was a dead brain, but if he could repair the "Gaoyou Lake" aircraft carrier in time, it didn't matter if he was a dead brain.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, Tan Renhao saw Hao Dongjue running towards him quickly.

"How's it going?" Tan Renhao opened the car door and let Hao Dongjue get into the car first.

"It's not too bad, the overhaul work is still ongoing, and now it is estimated that it will take about two months to repair the 'Hongze Lake'. The situation on the Poyang Lake is a little better. After Tan Renhao got into the car, Hao Dongjue continued. I've already met the shipyard engineer with the middle-aged man, right? ”

Tan Renhao nodded, the middle-aged engineer left a deep impression on him.

"He has made a pledge to speed up repairs as much as possible. But in order to ensure that the aircraft carrier can be completely repaired, I didn't put forward too high requirements, anyway, a two-month rest is not a bad thing. Hao Dongjue said as he took out a cigarette. How's it going, what's going on over there? ”

"It's not clear for the time being, but I'm afraid the maintenance work of the 'Gaoyou Lake' site will drag on for a while. And the 'Hongze Lake' has not yet arrived in Naha. Tan Renhao sighed, "But it's okay, at least these two aircraft carriers don't need to take two months to repair, and we can take this opportunity to breathe a sigh of relief." ”

"Also, I asked the chief of staff to go back and arrange the leave work of the officers and soldiers. I heard that there would be a ferry back to Naha in the afternoon, and I tried to get the first batch of officers and soldiers to catch the ferry home. ”

Tan Renhao asked Zhu Rongzhe to deal with the matter of vacation arrangements last night, and he also knew that officers and soldiers needed time to rest. It takes time to adjust the status. High-intensity combat has the greatest psychological impact on people.

"Where are we going now?" Hao Dongjue rolled down the window and let the cold wind blow in outside.

"Go to the hospital." Tan Renhao replied.

Hao Dongjue glanced at his brother-in-law and didn't ask anything. All the wounded were transferred to the hospital yesterday. As early as when he was the chief of staff of the First Task Force, Hao Dongjue knew that Tan Renhao was a person who cared about his subordinates very much, maybe many times, Tan Renhao behaved indifferently and ruthlessly, but in Tan Renhao's heart, what he cared about most was not victory, nor the battleships in the fleet, but those subordinates who died on the battlefield and were wounded.

The car soon drove outside the theater hospital, and a Marine guarding the door helped Tan Renhao open the door. Then Tan Renhao and Hao Dongjue, who got out of the car, saluted a standard military salute.

"General, have you come to visit the wounded of the fleet?"

"yes, how do you know?" Tan Renhao looked at the soldier a little puzzled.

"I was ordered to come down from above, please come with me!"

Tan Renhao didn't ask too much, and let the soldier lead the way in front.

"It must have been your father-in-law who knew that you were coming to the hospital, so he said hello in advance." Hao Dongjue said what Tan Renhao guessed.

"Maybe, but I really don't want anyone else to know."

The soldier took Tan Renhao and Hao Dongjue to an office and asked them to wait here for a while, not a short time. Led by an officer, several soldiers who touched large cardboard boxes rushed over.

"What's going on?" Hao Dongjue didn't know what happened this time.

"General, this was only delivered this morning." The officer motioned to the soldier next to him to open the carton, "This is the excellent service medal issued by the Navy Headquarters to meritorious soldiers, and General Liao Hanxiang sent someone to send it over, saying that you can use it." ”

Tan Renhao trembled slightly, his father-in-law's arrangement was very thoughtful, compared to those flowers, these medals were more meaningful, and they were more able to comfort the injured officers and soldiers.

"General, do you need us to lead the way?"

"No, we'll just go to the ward." Tan Renhao asked the soldiers to put the cardboard boxes full of medals on the table, "Thank you for your help, and in addition, please thank everyone here for me." ”

"General, you're too polite, this is what we should do." The officer was very interested, "If there is nothing to do, then we will take our leave." The wounded of Task Force 1 were in Buildings 1 and 2, the wounded of Task Force 2 were in Buildings 3 and 4, and the wounded of Task Force 4 were in Building 4. ”

Tan Renhao sent the officer outside the door, thanked him a few more words, and then closed the door and turned around.

"Renhao, your father-in-law is really thoughtful, and we haven't even thought of bringing some gifts."

"That's the best gift, go and call the lieutenants."

Du Xing and Hao Dongjue's adjutant quickly rushed over, and then the four of them went to the back of the inpatient building. The war zone hospital has a total of six inpatient buildings, all of which were newly built in the last two years, and the two old buildings have been demolished. The buildings are all eight storeys tall and are fully equipped with elevators. There are 58 wards on each floor, with an average of 4 patients per ward, which means that each building can accommodate 1,856 patients. The wounded of the 1st Task Force alone occupied two buildings. Although not all of them were occupied, and some of the wounded of other units, especially the marines sent back from the front, were already occupied, but this is enough to prove how many officers and men the 1st Task Force had lost.

Tan Renhao did not take the elevator, but under the leadership of the nurse, he personally visited the officers and soldiers of the fleet in each ward, and personally wore the excellent service medal for each officer and soldier. This is just the most common medal in the Navy, as long as it has been wounded in battle. Then you will get one such medal, and many officers and soldiers even have several such medals. However, for these soldiers who value honor more than life, the real value of the medal is not its rank, but its expressed recognition and the meaning of the reward. In the eyes of any soldier, the meaning of a medal made of ordinary brass cannot be described in words. When the medal is worn on the chest, it is the most valuable thing for these soldiers, no matter how much sweat and blood they have shed on the combat plant. That's the most meaningful.

Walk from the first floor to the eighth floor. Then go down from the eighth floor to the first floor, come to another building, and go up to the eighth floor from the first floor again. It took Tan Renhao a full four hours. Finally, he stopped outside an intensive care unit, and the last medal was left in his hand.

"General, do you need me to go in and have a look?" Duchenne knew who lived inside.

Tan Renhao shook his head, he took a deep breath, and gently pushed the door open. When he saw the wounded man lying on the hospital bed, he couldn't help but clench the medal in his hand. The nurse, who was changing potions in the room, glanced back at Tan Renhao, and then walked over.

"General, it's past the time to visit the sick, if ......"

"I'm only missing a minute." Tan Renhao took out the medal. "It's his, and I want to put it on for him with my own hands."

The nurse hesitated for a moment, and only then did she leave the ward when she saw the head nurse standing outside the door nodding at her.

Lying on the bed, Ellsler was still in a coma, and when the fleet arrived at the port of Apra, Ellsle still had not passed the dangerous period, mainly because of too much blood loss, and it was soaked in the sea water for a long time, resulting in a wide range of infections. The medical officer on the battleship simply saved his life. And after being sent to the war zone hospital, the best doctors in the hospital consulted and came to a not optimistic conclusion.

Tan Renhao's hand holding the medal was frozen in the air, and An Shile slept deeply, except that his face was relatively pale, he didn't look like he was injured. He felt that the weight of the medal was heavier, and it might be so heavy that Ellsler could not get up again, but he couldn't keep holding on, this was the honor that belonged to Andersle, and this was the honor that belonged to all the Imperial Navy soldiers who threw their heads and spilled their blood in battle.

Tan Renhao gently pinned the medal to the sheet on Annsler's chest, and then he gently smoothed out the folds on the sheet. He tried his best to control the emotions that were about to erupt like a torrent, and to control the tears rolling in his eyes. When he turned around, Tan Renhao quickly wiped his eyes and returned to normal.

"General, we'll do our best to take care of Colonel Ellsle." The head nurse is a very reasonable middle-aged woman, "Our doctors are the best, they are also the most conscientious, and we will do everything we can to wake the colonel from his coma." ”

Tan Renhao nodded. "Thank you, and I thank you on behalf of Ellsler."

"General, you're too polite."

"Alright, I'm not going to delay your time." Tan Renhao smiled reluctantly, "I'm really sorry to let you stay with me for a few hours, let's leave now." ”

"I'll send you down."

"No, if you have something to do, you can get busy first." Tan Renhao called Du Xing and walked briskly towards the entrance of the corridor.

Behind her, the young nurse hadn't reacted yet, and when Tan Renhao and the others disappeared from the corner of the corridor, she asked the head nurse next to her blankly, "Who is he?" How does it seem so easy to get emotional? ”

"You don't know who he is? He is Admiral Tan Renhao. ”

The young female nurse looked at the head nurse in disbelief, she couldn't believe it at all, the person who terrified the enemy on the battlefield and became a general before the age of thirty was Tan Renhao!

"The general is also a human being, I heard that the pilot is one of his most important subordinates, but now he is lying unconscious in bed, no matter who it is, he has feelings." The head nurse patted the little nurse on the shoulder, "Prepare to change the dressing, are you going to get ready to get off work?" ”

"Yes, I'll go and change the medicine and get off work."

Tan Renhao had already come downstairs, and after waiting for Hao Dongjue, they left the hospital by car together. On the way, neither of them opened the topic, whether it was talking about Renhao or Hao Dongjue, they were not in a good mood. No matter who it was, when they realized that victory was won through the sacrifice and blood of so many brave soldiers, they would not be in a much better mood.

"We're here." When he arrived at the theater headquarters, Hao Dongjue spoke, "You go down first, I'm going to go back to the fleet." ”

"How?" Tan Renhao frowned, "Don't you live here?" ”

"There's something going on with the fleet, no, I just want to go back and see."

Tan Renhao glanced at his brother-in-law, then nodded. At this time, an officer ran over, and Tan Renhao immediately turned his head.

"General, Commander, please come over immediately."

"What's the matter?" Tan Renhao felt a little headache, and after he came back, he hadn't had a few quiet days yet.

"I don't know, the commander just asked me to come to you."

"Okay, I'll go right away." Tan Renhao turned around and said to Hao Dongjue in the car, "Help me keep an eye on the shipyard, and we'll contact you when I return to the fleet." ”

"No problem, though, I'm afraid you're in new trouble. Don't worry, I'll help you keep an eye on the repairs. Hao Dongjue smiled, and then closed the car door.

Tan Renhao glanced up at the headquarters building in front of him, and then followed the officer in. He also knew that Liao Hanxiang called him over before dinner, and there must be something very important. He even guessed that this was not an internal matter in the war zone, Liao Hanxiang would not trouble him with the internal problems in the war zone, only one person would come to disturb Tan Renhao at this time, and this person was not in Guam, but on Zhoushan Island, thousands of nautical miles away.