After reading the information given to him by General Liao Hanxiang, Tan Renhao was not surprised, he was not even surprised by General Liao Hanxiang's separate summons.

"You already know the results, and as for the rest, we don't need to talk about it." General Liao Hanxiang's expression was very good, "This time, Marshal Sajiting did not remove General Pei Yuming from his post, but I heard that after the First Fleet returned to Dagu, it was ordered to reorganize, and the sea training activities in the second half of the year were canceled. In addition, Marshal Satitin has ordered the Department of Naval Armament to restart work on the design of a new aircraft carrier. If nothing else, before the end of this year, Marshal Satitin will submit to the Cabinet Government a plan for the construction of a new aircraft carrier, and the funds for the construction of the new aircraft carrier will be approved at the first session of parliament at the beginning of next year at the earliest. Of course, the major fleets have not yet reacted much to the expansion of the number of aircraft carriers, but this is a matter of time. ”

Tan Renhao did not speak, and General Liao Hanxiang's meaning was already very clear. In order to ensure the supremacy of the Imperial Navy, and especially to deal with the formidable threat of the Japanese Navy, Marshal Sajetin had changed the original line of the "big ships and big guns" doctrine and increased the importance of aircraft carriers. However, this is still not enough, because the basis of any navy is talent, and without enough talent, there will be no strong navy.

"Now, that's all I can tell you, you should know that what you hear in this room must not be told outside, understand?"

Tan Renhao immediately nodded, the development of naval equipment is the most important secret of a country's navy.

Liao Hanxiang glanced at Tan Renhao with a smile. "This time, you did a great job, especially the report, which gave us a great opportunity to develop. I have asked Chief of Staff Wu Xianyu to consider giving you an exceptional chance to be promoted. ”

"General, in fact, this is what I should do, and ......" Tan Renhao was secretly surprised, he had only officially joined the Imperial Navy for more than a month, I am afraid that in peacetime, no one could really get the opportunity to be promoted so quickly.

Liao Hanxiang raised his hand to stop Tan Renhao's words. "The merit is to be recognized, and of course, this is also the credit of all the officers and men of the fleet. However, there is one more thing you need to do before you put on the rank of lieutenant. ”

Tan Renhao frowned slightly, it seems that it is not so easy to get promoted.

"Do you know the Qingdao Naval Arsenal?" Liao Hanxiang took a copy of the information and handed it to Tan Renhao. "Right now, the engineers at this arsenal are experimenting with three very important munitions for us. One is a new type of aviation electric torpedo, and the other two are 250 kg and 500 kg aerial bombs. ”

Tan Renhao flipped through the information, which contained the technical drawings of these three types of ammunition, as well as the relevant performance data sheets. This is much more detailed than the one he got before, and there are even a lot of technical terms that Tan Renhao is not familiar with. Apparently, this material was sent directly from the arsenal.

"In November, two months later, Marshal Saditin arranged for us an opportunity to prove the strength of the Fifth Fleet." Liao Hanxiang took out a cigarette, and this time he didn't give Tan Renhao a cigarette. "I told you about this before. How much do you know about the heavy cruiser 'Jiading' and the battleship 'Dongting Lake'? ”

Tan Renhao frowned slightly, and quickly said the main performance parameters of these two warships, he could almost remember the performance of all the major warships in the Imperial Navy. The heavy cruiser "Jiading" is the sister ship of the flagship of the Fifth Fleet, the "Yancheng", which was built at the end of the last war and is already 18 years old. The battleship "Dongting Lake" is the first ship of the "Lake" class battleships that the empire started construction in 1297 (1915 AD) in the Tang calendar, and its age has exceeded 20 years. Relatively speaking, the service life of these two warships is not very long, but the performance is relatively backward, especially compared with the large number of warships built after the war, it already looks a bit old.

"These two warships will be decommissioned next month, and they were originally planned to be dismantled and sold as scrap steel, but now they are our target ships." Liao Hanxiang paused slightly, and waited for Tan Renhao to follow his train of thought before continuing, "Marshal Sajiting gave us this opportunity, and we can't miss it. You'll be going to the Qingdao Naval Arsenal tomorrow to coordinate with the engineers there and supervise the finalization tests of the three munitions. I have only one request, and that is that in two months' time I want to see those two decommissioned ships sink in the smoke of torpedoes and bombs dropped by bombers, and not by any other means, understand? ”

Tan Renhao nodded hurriedly, General Liao Hanxiang's meaning was very clear, if the power of those three types of ammunition was not enough to destroy the battleship "Dongting Lake" with a displacement of 35,000 tons, two lines of anti-torpedo armor, and a horizontal armor thickness of more than 80 millimeters, then he had to immediately ask engineers to modify these three types of ammunition to increase their power to meet their needs.

"The plane will take off tomorrow morning at eight o'clock, you have a good rest in the evening, and when you get there, you have to hurry up all the time." Liao Hanxiang stood up, "Second Lieutenant, if there is anything you need, you can bring it up now." ”

"General, can you let Hao Dongjue and the new lieutenant come with me?" Tan Renhao attaches great importance to these two colleagues.

"No, I can let you go this time, I still let Marshal Satietin approve it, this should have been the responsibility of the Navy Logistics Command." Liao Hanxiang smiled awkwardly, "However, you can contact the two of them by phone at any time, and I will prepare a special line for you, of course, you can also contact Ji Xiaobin, Wu Xianyu, and me at any time." ”

Tan Renhao nodded a little helplessly, because among the three of them, Hao Dongjue was in charge of aviation operations, and Tan Renhao's understanding of those torpedoes and bombs was not as thorough as Hao Dongjue's.

As soon as he walked to the door, Liao Hanxiang stopped him. "Second lieutenant, wait a minute, you go to the finance to get a business trip fund, don't treat yourself badly, there are a few restaurants in Qingdao that do a very good job of seafood, you have time to taste it!"

Tan Renhao was stunned for a moment, and then laughed. However, he suspects that he will even be squeezed out of sleep time by then, so how can he still have the energy to taste Qingdao's seafood?