Because he needed to submit a work report to the fleet command every day, Tan Renhao did not spend the night in the city, and returned to the factory hotel in the evening. Three days later, the last round of tests before the finalization was a complete success, and a temporarily modified HNA twin-engine shore-based bomber dropped two bombs and a "Swordfish" torpedo in the experimental waters of Jiaozhou Bay, both of which accurately hit the target fixed on the sea surface.

After obtaining the last test experiment data, Tan Renhao received the news in the afternoon of the same day, telling him to return to the fleet headquarters immediately. And the Equipment Procurement Office of the Logistics Command of the Imperial Navy soon placed an order with the arsenal for these three types of ammunition. The arsenal was to deliver to the Imperial Navy within a month twenty Swordfish torpedoes, fifty 250-kilogram aviation armor-piercing shells, and twenty-five 500-kilogram aviation armor-piercing shells. The ammunition will be delivered directly to the Fifth Fleet by specialized ammunition carriers of the logistics department.

It was already midnight when the plane landed at Kadena Airport, and Tan Renhao did not let his adjutant Du Xing come to pick him up, he went to the airport station to find a "taxi" and returned to the dormitory in the second half of the night. As a result, after sleeping for less than four hours, he was woken up by Duchenne.

"The Commander knows you're back, so let me come over to you immediately!" Duchenne stood by the door, the car parked outside, and he had put a box of breakfast on the desk by the door.

"Okay, wait for me for five minutes!" Tan Renhao sighed secretly, then took a shower as fast as he could, and then changed into a clean military uniform.

As soon as he finished breakfast, the jeep arrived outside the headquarters building, and Duchenne probably estimated the speed of Tan Renhao's meal, but the speed was not very fast. When Tan Renhao came to the office of the commander, General Liao Hanxiang, Chief of Staff Wu Xianyu was also here.

"Second Lieutenant, it seems that you are a very time-saving person, we all think that you will go to Qingdao for a few days before coming back!" Liao Hanxiang joked, "However, saving time is a good habit, have you had breakfast?" ”

"I ate it on the way." Tan Renhao smiled awkwardly, and then sat down on the sofa opposite Brigadier General Wu Xianyu at Liao Hanxiang's signal.

"We have read all the technical data you sent back, and Chief of Staff Wu Xianyu has also found someone to calculate it, which fully meets our requirements." Liao Hanxiang also sat down, "However, we think it's safer for you to tell us personally, don't you?" ”

Tan Renhao nodded, quickly sorted out his thoughts, and then said: "The performance of the two aerial bombs is good, if you look at the armor-piercing ability, this is nearly twice as high as the aerial bombs we use now, which is enough to deal with any warship." And there is a little flaw, mainly the problem of instability of the throwing trajectory, the engineers have come up with a suitable solution, before the first batch of small batch production, they will conduct two rounds of experiments, and then they will send all the data. The Swordfish torpedo is also very good, not only has its speed increased by ten knots, its range has increased by three kilometers, but it is also at least twice as powerful as the Tigerfish, and can easily penetrate the anti-torpedo armor belt of any battleship. ”

"So, we can fully believe that these three new munitions can take out the 'Dongting Lake'?" Liao Hanxiang is clearly still concerned about the final result.

"Unless there is no hit, we can fully believe in the power of these three munitions." Tan Renhao answered the general's question with great certainty, however, he immediately said, "The problem is that we don't have a suitable aircraft to use these three types of ammunition. ”

"Second Lieutenant, we're trying to figure out how to solve this problem!" Liao Hanxiang laughed and glanced at Wu Xianyu at the same time.

"After we received the detailed data, we have already arranged for personnel to make improvements to the current three bombers." Wu Xianyu's words were very calm, "If it's just to verify whether the bomber can destroy the battleship, then you can barely cope." ”

"Ensign, you've done a great job." Liao Hanxiang didn't let Wu Xianyu continue, after all, those things had nothing to do with Tan Renhao, and there was no need to tell him, "The chief of staff has submitted to the Navy Command the list of personnel for this year's exceptional promotion of the Fifth Fleet, and your name is ranked first. Here, we congratulate you in advance! ”

Tan Renhao was taken aback and immediately stood up: "Thank you to the commander and chief of staff for their appreciation and promotion." ”

"Exceptional promotion" is a convenient promotion channel provided by the Imperial Navy for outstanding officers and men. In that year, Marshal Yuan Haoyi was promoted five times in a row in three years, and as a result, he became an imperial admiral in his twenties. It's also a very effective motivator. More importantly, any young officer who has been promoted will be trained as a key talent, and it is very likely that he will become an excellent admiral in the Imperial Navy in the future.

Liao Hanxiang laughed. "You don't have to thank us, you deserve it. Okay, these days, you have a good rest, and then hand over the work report of this trip to the Qingdao Naval Arsenal to Colonel Ji Xiaobin, and he will have a new task to you. ”

"Yes!" Tan Renhao immediately bid farewell to the two generals.

In the afternoon of the same day, Tan Renhao handed over the report to Colonel Ji Xiaobin. The colonel was still so busy, and to Tan Renhao's surprise, this time the colonel did not assign him a new task, but just let him rest for two days before going to him.

This was the first time that Tan Renhao felt idle since he came to the Fifth Fleet, and when he returned to the office, he found that Hao Dongjue and Chang Jianxin were also like him, and there was nothing to do at all.

"Renhao, did you hear the news?" Hao Dongjue looked very enthusiastic, he made a cup of tea for Tan Renhao, "I heard that this year's list of exceptional promotions has come out, and we are all sure that you are among them, but what I didn't expect is that you were actually sent to the first position!" ”

"Renhao, congratulations!" Chang Jianxin also came over.

Tan Renhao smiled a little shyly and greeted the two. Getting nominated for an "exceptional promotion" doesn't guarantee a promotion, but as long as you can appear at the top of the list provided by each fleet, you will hardly be brushed off.

"Renhao, this is great news, you have to invite us to rub it!"

Of course, Tan Renhao will not refuse, if he can be successfully promoted, then he will take the first step on the road to success as a professional soldier, which is also the most important step.