When the port of Nagasaki disappeared below the sea antenna, Tan Renhao lit a cigarette and watched the sunset on the western sea line. The nights at sea are cool, even a little chilly.

"What is this?"

Tan Renhao glanced at the puppet in Hao Dongjue's hand. This is a puppet made in the style of a young officer of the Imperial Navy, which is vivid, but it makes people feel very uncomfortable.

"****** Little Japan!" Chang Jianxin directly threw the gift box in his hand into the sea.

"Chang, what are you doing here? I guess it's a gift from the Japanese. Hao Dongjue was a little puzzled, looking at the somewhat abnormal Chang Zhixin.

"Keep it if you like." Chang Zhixin sneered, and then lit a cigarette as well, "Do you know what Japanese puppets are used for?" According to Japanese custom, puppets are used to commemorate the dead, would you like to keep them? ”

Hao Dongjue was stunned for a moment, and then threw the puppet in his hand as if he had been electrocuted. "******Little Japan, it's really ill-intentioned, since you curse us."

Tan Renhao laughed, he threw the gift from the dwarf-like Japanese woman into the sea when he got on the ship, and he didn't bring it to the battleship at all.

"Damn it!" Hao Dongjue wiped his hands, as if he had been soiled by something, "****** little Japan, next time I go to Nagasaki, it will definitely be in ruins!" ”

Tan Renhao smiled and shook his head, he just felt that the Japanese were very bad at engaging in these ghost tricks with ill intentions, even if they were a sane person, they wouldn't believe in any curses, ghosts and gods. At this time, a seaplane flew over from the east and landed on the sea next to the "Li Jing." The pilot's technique must have been excellent, and the "Li Jing" did not slow down at all, and the seaplane still smoothly approached the port side of the battleship.

Just when Hao Dongjue kept cursing Japan, and Tan Renhao and Chang Jianxin were watching the excitement on the sidelines, General Liao Hanxiang's orderlies found them.

"Major, the general invites you to the conference headquarters."

"Now?"

The orderly nodded.

"Okay, I'll be right over." Tan Renhao glanced at the two companions, "You guys wait and go eat first, you don't have to wait for me." ”

Hao Dongjue and Chang Jianxin both nodded, they were used to Tan Renhao being called by the commander.

In the conference room, Liao Hanxiang, Wu Xianyu and Ji Xiaobin were all smoking, there were several documents on the desktop, Liao Hanxiang was standing in front of the map of the Pacific Ocean hanging on the wall, Wu Xianyu was studying the nautical chart on the desktop, and Ji Xiaobin was thinking about something.

"Commander ......"

"Major, you've come just in time, let's take a look at these documents first." Ji Xiaobin threw the documents in front of Tan Renhao, and then asked him to sit down, "I just received it, and the Navy Command sent a plane over." ”

Tan Renhao hesitated for a moment, then opened the top document, and as soon as he saw the title, he glanced at Ji Xiaobin with a little surprise. Ji Xiaobin shrugged his shoulders and motioned for him to continue looking.

"Japanese are dogs!" Liao Hanxiang walked over, and didn't notice his words at all. "A few hours ago, there was still talk and laughter, but now it suddenly changes, it's really ****** a bad beating!"

"Lao Liao!" Wu Xianyu frowned slightly, prompting Liao Hanxiang to pay attention to his words, but he didn't pay attention to it himself.

"What, I'm wrong?" Liao Hanxiang sneered, "If I use my temper and just make a plan, is there anything to be afraid of?" In hundreds of years, when has Japan won the war? The last lesson was not enough for them, this time they will be beaten to death, don't show mercy, let alone be soft, and fight until the little Japanese obey it! ”

Wu Xianyu shook his head with a wry smile, and his gaze shifted to Tan Renhao. "Major, this is just sent by the Navy Command, it looks like we have to stay at sea for a while longer."

Tan Renhao didn't say anything, the document was top secret, so it couldn't be sent by a not-so-secure telegram. Presumably, Japan was sending more troops to the southwestern part of Honshu Island and Kyushu Island, and that a Japanese patrol warship was involved in a naval clash with a ship of the Kingdom of Korea near Ikki Island, and as a result, a Japanese patrol boat was rammed and sunk by a North Korean destroyer. Now that the Japanese negotiators have withdrawn from the tripartite talks, the Japanese cabinet has convened an emergency meeting, and even the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Navy, Shusei Nagano (who succeeded the aged King Hirokon a year ago), who was directing the exercises, has returned to Tokyo and handed over the exercise to the new commander of the Combined Fleet, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.

"What has changed in the exercises of the Japanese fleet?" Tan Renhao raised his head, and the first thing he realized was that the maritime conflict on Yiqi Island would probably be the fuse of the war.

"There's no news yet." Wu Xianyu sighed, "The submarine monitoring the Japanese fleet's exercise returned a few days ago, and the newly dispatched submarine will not arrive until about five days later, and we can't be sure whether the Japanese fleet is still continuing the exercise." ”

Tan Renhao was slightly stunned, and immediately pulled the chart over, and then, his face became even more gloomy.

"Major, do you think there's anything wrong?" Liao Hanxiang also noticed the change in Tan Renhao's expression.

"Commander Liao, don't you think this is strange?" Tan Renhao pointed out on the charts the location of the four main fleets of the empire operating in the western Pacific. "Right now, the First Fleet is in the port of Naha, the Second Fleet has returned a few days ago and should be in the Sulu Sea now, and the Third Fleet has just entered the South China Sea, and we are returning to the port of Naha. Nearly seventy percent of the main fleet of the Imperial Navy is in the western Pacific region, and all of them are within the strike range of the Japanese Air Force! ”

Liao Hanxiang was startled and immediately walked over. "Is that boring?"

Wu Xianyu and Ji Xiaobin also walked over, obviously, they all attached great importance to the opinions of this major staff officer.

"I think it's a sign of war." Tan Renhao glanced at the three generals with a serious face, "If Japan needs to start a war, it will definitely be a sneak attack, as well as a surprise attack, to start a war without any preparation of the Imperial Navy, in order to seize the initiative and sea dominance in the early stage of the war." As long as Japan gains sea supremacy and the Imperial Navy suffers heavy losses, then we will have to fight this all-out war with Japan in an extremely passive situation! ”

At this moment, the expressions of the three generals sank, and Tan Renhao's words were not nonsense, because this was indeed the best way for Japan to start a war.