Liao Yingyu stayed at Tan's house for more than 10 days before receiving an order from the army to rush back to the naval hospital. More than ten days later, only a month after Tan Renhao's vacation, Du Xing rushed to Wenzhou, and at the same time brought a paper order.

"Let me go back to the Navy Command?" Tan Renhao was also a little incredulous. According to the word Xun given to him by Nie Renfeng before leaving, this vacation should be two months, and now that it has only been a month, he will be allowed to go back, it seems that the battle situation has changed again.

"General, I inquired, this time I probably want you to go back and be reinstated." Duchenne took a sip of water, and he didn't stop at all along the way. "I met General Liao Hanxiang in Hangzhou, and General Liao Hanxiang was supposed to come over, but he couldn't leave because of something, and the matter was very urgent, so he asked me to bring the order over. I inquired with a few people, and I heard that it was Marshal Nie Renfeng, Marshal Sajiting, General Gan Yongxing, General Liao Hanxiang and many others who jointly signed a guarantee, and the prime minister of Zong Han and Qin temporarily withdrew the investigation of you, and agreed that you would continue to serve as the commander of the First Task Force. ”

"Is there any other news?" Tan Renhao hesitated and took out a cigarette, "Have you heard of the recent battle report?" ”

Duchenne shook his head with a wry smile. "General, I'm just a second lieutenant officer, and I don't know a lot of things. This time it was the marshal himself who ordered the transfer, and there must have been something very important. ”

Tan Renhao nodded. "Okay, you go and help me pack my bags, and we'll be out in the evening."

"Not waiting for tomorrow?"

"Let's rush back as soon as possible, if it's not urgent, the principal won't let me return to the Navy Command immediately. Maybe the situation of the war has changed dramatically now, and we can't afford to delay it! ”

Originally, Tan Renhao was going to go on the road before dinner, but he still stayed and ate before leaving.

"Renhao, these are some local specialties, you help us bring them to our in-laws, and it can be regarded as a little bit of our heart." Tan Jingkang stuffed a large bag of things into the back seat of the jeep.

"Dad. This ......"

"The necessary etiquette must still be had, otherwise the in-laws will say that we don't understand the rules." Tan Jingkang laughed: "By the way, there are still a few things in Xiaoleidi inside, which were sent by his family yesterday, and you can also bring them back with you." ”

Tan Renhao nodded, and he couldn't say anything more.

Gu Xiujuan walked over, and she patted the dust off her son's clothes. "Renhao. If you have time, write to your mother, don't let your mother always think about you......"

"Mom, I'll write a letter!" Tan Renhao saw that his mother's eyes were already full of tears, and he hurriedly made a guarantee.

"You have to pay attention to your body, don't smoke so much, mom is not at ease......"

"Mom, I know it all!" Tan Renhao remembered when he went to the Naval Academy to report.

Gu Xiujuan wiped her eyes, then turned her back, not letting her son see her cry.

"Brother. Take care. Tan Qinglian's lips trembled a few times. Didn't say the second half of the sentence.

Tan Renhao nodded and patted his sister's shoulder. "Little sister, you are the same. Help me take care of my dad and mom. I'll pick you up and take you to your new home next time I come back. ”

"Brother, I know that you pay attention to your own safety, and if you have free time, you will often contact your family!"

Tan Renhao smiled and touched his sister's head, then looked at his parents. "Mom and Dad, then I'll go first, I'll contact home when I'm free!"

After getting in the car, Tan Renhao kept looking at his parents and sister standing by the door from the rearview mirror. It wasn't until the jeep turned the corner that he let out a sigh. Counting the three years of studying at the Naval Academy, Tan Renhao has only gone home twice in the past five years, and he suddenly feels that he owes a lot to this family, a lot to his parents, and a lot to his sister.

"Does the general want one?"

Tan Renhao took the cigarette when Duchenne handed over the lighter. He shook his hand and didn't light the cigarette. After returning home for more than a month, he thought a lot about it, and if he needed a reason to continue fighting against the pressure, then that reason was that he had to fight to defend his family, protect his relatives and his fiancée who still loved him deeply.

"Is the general going to buy some dry food?"

"There's a shop in front of you to buy some food and water." Tan Renhao returned to reality, "On the way, we took turns driving, hoping to return to the Navy Command as soon as possible. ”

Duchenne pulled over to the side of the road and trotted to buy some cookies and came back. In his opinion, Tan Renhao was in such a hurry to return to the fleet because he wanted to use a tense battle to dissipate other feelings.

At noon the next day, Tan Renhao and they came to Ningbo. A captain officer sent by Nie Renfeng picked them up at the dock, and then the three of them boarded a seaplane and arrived at Zhoushan Port in the afternoon.

"General, you can go and change your clothes first, and the marshal is waiting for you in his office."

Tan Renhao did not refuse this proposal, he had not slept for a day and a night, and he wanted to take a cold shower so that he would be more awake when he saw the principal.

"General, it's clean clothes." Du Xing was still very dutiful, and when Tan Renhao was taking a shower, he took out the clean clothes and put them on the bed.

"Duchenne, wait a minute, I'll be in the past, I don't have anything to do with you in the afternoon, you can arrange it yourself."

"General, I'm starting to hear something."

"Oh?" Tan Renhao walked out of the bathroom, he wiped his wet head, and looked at Du Xing suspiciously, only more than ten minutes after he came back, Du Xing got new news, it seems that this adjutant's ability has also improved a lot. "What's the news?"

"Task Force 1's ships are refueled and ammunition, and most of them are in the heat of the engine, and they will probably set sail soon." "Warm engine" is a slang term in the navy, which means that a battleship should let the main engine run before setting sail, so that it can reach the best condition after setting sail.

Tan Renhao was startled and immediately threw away the towel in his hand. "You're saying Task Force 1 is coming out?"

Duchenne nodded. "I just asked, (all the way,) maybe it's just these two days!"

Tan Renhao hesitated for a moment and said, "Go find Lei Shaoqing and ask a few of them for details." Come to me in the evening if they have time. By the way, ask for other news. ”

Duchenne nodded and immediately went out. Tan Ren Haoxuan put on his clothes, and then drove to the Navy Headquarters building by himself. He also thought of the headmaster to recruit him back at this time. It is definitely related to the combat operations of Task Force 1.

Tan Renhao waited outside Marshal Nie Renfeng's office for ten minutes, and was called in by his secretary only after a colonel in his thirties left. When Tan Renhao saw Marshal Nie Renfeng's first glance, he first appeared as if the principal seemed to be a lot older, maybe he remembered it wrong, Tan Renhao always felt that the principal was a lot more white.

"Sit down, did you hear the news on the way?" Nie Renfengdi's voice was also a little hoarse, probably because he hadn't rested well during this time.

"Message?" Tan Renhao hung his hat on the coat rack by the door. That's when I walked over.

"It looks like you're really on vacation during this time!" Nie Renfeng threw a few newspapers in front of Tan Renhao.

Tan Renhao smiled awkwardly, and then picked up the newspaper, he was indeed on vacation at ease, he hadn't read the newspaper at all, and he rarely even went out. As soon as he saw the headline in the newspaper, he was immediately taken aback.

"The 6th Army has stabilized the situation on the Korean Peninsula and, a few days ago, carried out several successful strategic bombings on several important industrial towns in the western part of the Japanese island of Kyushu and Honshu, with very good results." Nie Renfeng handed the cigarette to Tan Renhao. "Now. Wei Boyu is once again competing with us for the task of strategic bombing against Japan. This time, Marshal Yan Dingyu personally arranged the strategic bombing of Nagasaki Shimonoseki against Japan after his recovery. Tomioka, Matsuyama, Oita and other major industrial towns, as well as important ports, were bombed on a large scale. At least the results reported by the 6 airlines are very good. This is tantamount to putting pressure on us, and the prime minister of the Zonghan and Qin dynasties has begun to tend to hand over the heavy responsibility of strategic bombing against Japan to the 6th Voyage, of course, provided that we cannot prove that we are capable enough to take on this task. ”

Tan Renhao gritted his teeth, if there was an enemy within the empire. That Wei Boyu was his first enemy.

"If we want to convince the Prime Minister of the Acting Empire in the strength of HNA Land, we must do two things." Nie Renfeng habitually crossed his hands on his chest: "First, there have been 6 bomber units. This Hafei and Shen Fei are all working hard, and in about three months, our strategic bomber will be able to finalize and test fly, and if everything goes well, before the end of the year. We will form the first strategic bomber group. I have appointed Colonel Luo Yunchong to organize the pilots for training. The training will probably end in mid-November. In other words, it is quite possible that before the end of the year, we will carry out the first strategic bombing of the Japanese mainland. ”

"And what's the second thing?" Tan Renhao put down the newspaper.

Nie Renfeng gave a document to Tan Renhao, and then motioned for Tan Renhao to open it and take a look. "The second thing is that we have to have our own bomber base. Now the airports of the empire are controlled by the 6th airline. If the pressure is exerted by the minister, the 6 airlines will definitely provide cooperation. But God knows if someone will be behind the scenes, taking the opportunity to snatch the strategic bomber force over? Therefore, I have sent Liao Hanxiang to the Korean side, hoping to get the Kingdom of Korea to provide some of the airports. There is also our base on Jeju Island, Ryukyu Island. It's just that it's still not enough. Luo Yunchong made an analysis report: If we want to carry out effective strategic bombing of the entire territory of Japan and send fighter planes to provide escort cover for the bombers, then we must seize several islands in the southern part of Japan, that is, the volcanic archipelago and the Ogasawara Islands, and then build airfields on these islands for bombers and escort fighters. ”

Tan Renhao hesitated for a moment and said: "The Ogasawara Islands are about 9oo kilometers away from Tokyo, Japan, and we don't seem to have fighters with a combat radius of more than 9oo kilometers. ”

"That's right, so Shen Fei is copying the long-range fighter of the 6th Flight." Nie Renfeng laughed. After the outbreak of the war, the 6 heavy fighters originally produced by Chengfei and Xifei could all be produced by aircraft factories in other places, and the so-called patents and intellectual property rights were all nationalized. Whoever has the need can produce it.

"Twin night fighters?" Tan Renhao immediately reacted, and the fighters with a combat radius of more than 9oo kilometers owned by the 6th Air Force were only those dual-engine night fighters. And Tan Renhao knew very well in his heart that these fighters could only operate at night, because during the day these fighters would not be much more flexible than bombers, and they were no match for Japanese fighters at all.

"Yes, because of this, Luo Yunchong also thought of night bombing operations, at least as far as we know, Japan does not have many decent night fighters."

Tan Renhao also laughed. One of the characteristics of night fighters is that they are bulky, so they need more materials, better motives, and better design. In these three aspects, the design of Japanese fighters was not a big problem, but Japan lacked enough aluminum and did not have the motivation for high power, so it was difficult for Japan to build excellent night fighters.

"What did the principal do when he summoned me back?"

"Renhao, do you think you can still hide from the vacation?" Nie Renfeng stood up with a smile: "The First Task Force has a new mission. The General Staff came up with a rough battle plan, preparing to use three to five 6-Squad divisions to seize Iwo Jima, as well as several other islands where airfields could be built. And the task of Task Force 1 is to ......"

"Take out the Japanese Combined Fleet?" You don't need Nie Renfeng to say it, and you can understand Renhao.

"Your mission is to lead Task Force 1 to take out the Japanese Combined Fleet." Nie Renfeng walked up to Tan Renhao's side: "This time, I gave you a complete First Task Force, and it is also a strengthened First Task Force. The 'Yellow River' had joined Task Force 1 fifteen days earlier. In addition, three large air defense cruisers of the 'Li Jing' class and three heavy cruisers were added to the ranks. You now have four aircraft carriers, eight large cruisers, and fourteen heavy cruisers. If you still let the Japanese 1st Task Force escape......"

"Headmaster, you didn't lie to me?" Tan Renhao jumped up immediately when he was overjoyed.

"I'll lie to you?"

"Headmaster, don't worry, as long as the Japanese Combined Fleet dares to go north from Truk......"

"Now that the Japanese Combined Fleet has returned to Tokyo Bay, they are heading south."

"Whether it is going south or north, as long as the Japanese Combined Fleet dares to come out, I will let him go and never return!" Tan Renhao immediately made a military order.

"You know there is no joke in the army." Nie Renfeng smiled and patted Tan Renhao's shoulder: "Since you are so confident, then go ahead and let those who doubt you shut up and tell others who you are!" ”

Tan Renhao nodded vigorously, this is the opportunity he needs!