By the time the Albatross seaplane slowly approached the pier, it was already noon local time.

"Sir, the person who picked you up is here!" The roar of the two engines almost drowned out the sergeant-pilot's voice.

"Thank you, goodbye!" After Tan Renhao greeted the two pilots, he jumped off the plane and came to the dock.

Tan was greeted by a Fifth Fleet sergeant, and his jeep was parked on the embankment outside the docks.

"Sir, I'm Duchenne, and now I'm your adjutant!" After the sergeant saluted, he immediately took Tan Renhao's canvas bag, which only contained toiletries and a few sets of joyful clothes.

Tan Renhao returned the salute, and then followed the sergeant towards the jeep. In the past, he called other people chiefs, but now in less than a minute, two people called him chiefs, which made him feel very peculiar. According to the regulations of the Imperial Navy, any officer who has just arrived in the army will have a sergeant or sergeant adjutant, and such an adjutant has a very important role, which can help the junior officers who have just arrived in the army to quickly familiarize themselves with the situation of the army, and can teach these officers who have just come out of the military academy some military habits and traditions, so that the officers can get familiar with their troops as soon as possible.

"Sir, I'll take you to the dormitory first, and the commander will summon you at two o'clock in the afternoon."

"Summoning me?" Tan Renhao frowned slightly, "By the way, you don't need to call me 'sir' in the future, at least, when it's just the two of us, you don't need to bring this title." ”

Duchenne smiled and nodded. "Yes, the commander called in the morning and asked you to come to his office at two o'clock in the afternoon."

Tan Renhao nodded, he was going to be summoned by the commander when he first arrived at the fleet, and this treatment was already very good.

Each fleet of the empire has its own home port. For example, the home port of the First Fleet is Dagu Port, the home port of the Second Fleet is the Lion City, the home port of the Third Fleet is in Kolamba, the home port of the Fourth Fleet is in Cape Town, the home port of the Independent Fleet is in Corinto, and the home port of the Fifth Fleet is Naha. In addition, each fleet has other permanent ports, with more than a dozen and as few as four or five, but the only exception is the Fifth Fleet, which has only Naha as its permanent port. The headquarters of the fleet are located in the home port and are usually separated from the port commander, with the exception of the Fifth Fleet. At present, the Fifth Fleet Command located in the west of the port is still under construction, so the Fifth Fleet can only temporarily set up the headquarters in the port headquarters to the east, which is a separate part of the port command.

Tan Renhao's dormitory was on the edge of a cliff near the south, and there were five rows of more than twenty rooms in each row, and a path connected the dormitory area to the fleet headquarters building to the east, and the young officers of the fleet lived here, of course, all junior officers from second lieutenant to captain, and the senior officers and generals of the fleet lived on the other side of the base.

Assigned to Tan Renhao is a single room, which is also a better dormitory than the two-person non-commissioned officer's room and the four-person sailor's room. The size of the room is only about ten square meters, a single bed with a steel frame, a standing wardrobe, a wooden desk, and an iron chair, which are all the furniture in the room. However, the only thing that made Tan Renhao feel a little satisfied was that he had a separate bathroom, although the area was only about one square meter, but it was much better than going to a public bathhouse.

Tan Renhao took half an hour to take a cool shower, and then washed all the clothes he had changed. After tidying up his room, he went to the nearby officers' cafeteria for a not too rich lunch, and there were not many people in the cafeteria, because the junior officers in the fleet usually ate lunch on the battleship and would only come back here for dinner. When he returned to the dormitory, he saw that Duchenne was already waiting for him outside, and the jeep was parked outside his room.

"Sir......" Duchenne smiled awkwardly, "it's almost two o'clock!" ”

"Wait for me for five minutes!" Tan Renhao has a slight cleanliness fetish, and he doesn't want to make a bad first impression on the fleet commander.

The Fleet Command building was originally a warehouse for the Port Command, and later when the Fifth Fleet was established, it was converted into an office building because there was no suitable office space, but now it seems that it will be the center of the Fifth Fleet at least until the command base of the Fifth Fleet is officially built.

General Liao Hanxiang's office was on the second floor (there were only two floors in total) at the very end of the harbor. The office is large, but the décor is simple, and some of the paint on the walls is even discolored. However, to Tan Renhao's surprise, General Liao Hanxiang must be the kind of person who does not like to be unkempt, at least, this can be reflected in the messy situation in his office.

"Report, Navy Ensign Tan Renhao came to report!"

A middle-aged man in his mid-fifties stood up from behind a desk that looked a bit like a dining table. He is the legendary general Liao Hanxiang of the Imperial Navy, except for his tanned skin and a little gray hair, Liao Hanxiang definitely looks like a middle-aged man in his forties, not a man in his fifties. He was not very tall, about 1.65 meters, which was due to the fact that he had joined the Imperial cavalry in his early years, but he was very sturdy and well-proportioned, and showed no signs of getting fat. However, what impressed Tan Renhao the most was the scar on the general's face, which he left after a plane accident, and this also made Liao Hanxiang's appearance appear more resolute and have a wild taste.

"Jianqiang, go make two cups of tea!" Liao Hanxiang first gave an order to the orderly standing by the door, and then walked in front of Tan Renhao with a smile, "Young man, are you Tan Renhao?" Yes, it looks like I didn't write that letter in vain. Sit, sit down, it's a bit of a mess here, but I think you'll get used to it soon! ”

Tan Renhao took off his hat with a smile, and then hung it on the coat rack by the door, and after General Liao Hanxiang sat down, he sat down on the chair next to him, and on the sofa on the left hand side of the door, there were all documents and materials, and there was no way to sit down at all. However, from the first sentence, Tan Renhao judged that General Liao Hanxiang was a very easy-going person. This is the same as Tan Renhao's concise conclusion from some sources. General Liao Hanxiang has a very complicated experience, which makes him more casual than any Imperial Admiral, and at the same time, it also allows him to get the support and love of many of his subordinates!