After returning home, Tan Renhao locked himself in the study. He wasn't angry with anyone, but there were too many things keeping him busy, in addition to the information sent to him by Gan Yongxing, the maintenance of the battleships of the First Task Force, and the unfinished battle damage report, many things were waiting for him to deal with. Nominally, Gan Yongxing asked him to go home to rest, but in fact, Tan Renhao still had to focus on work.

After a few knocks on the door, Tan Jingkang walked in with a bowl.

"Dad, what's the matter?" Seeing his father's cautious appearance, Tan Renhao immediately stood up.

"It's okay, this is the ginseng soup your mother made for you, drink it while it's hot."

Tan Renhao took the soup bowl with a smile, the ginseng soup was still very hot, and when he saw his father standing next to him, he hurriedly said, "Dad, sit down." ”

"No, you can drink it quickly, wait until you go to dinner." Tan Jingkang hesitated, "Did you go to the hospital today?" ”

"Yes, I accompanied Yingyu to the hospital for a check-up." Tan Renhao asked his father to sit down, and then he sat down too.

"Did something happen to you?"

Asked by his father, Tan Renhao put down the soup bowl and looked at his father.

"Xiaoyu looked a little bad when she came back, she didn't go out of the bedroom in the morning, and usually, she went back to the yard to go around." Tan Jingkang looked a little incoherent, "Have you asked her anything?" ”

"No, I went to the headquarters later, and the chief of staff was in a bit of a hurry to find me, so I asked her to come back first, so she wouldn't be angry with me."

"Xiaoyu is not such a child, did something happen to you?"

Tan Renhao shook his head. Then he picked up the soup bowl.

"Actually, Xiaoyu's health is very poor, and your mother has found a lot of ways to help her make up for her body. Ay! Tan Jingkang sighed, "Drink it quickly." Wait a minute, I'll take the bowl out. ”

Tan Renhao also knew what his father was going to say, and he immediately finished drinking the ginseng soup. "Dad, it's okay, Xiaoyu is just a little unwell, I'll take a look later."

Tan Jingkang nodded. He took the empty bowl and left the study.

Tan Renhao knew that his father was a person who didn't know how to express his feelings, but he knew what kind of feelings his father wanted to express. Tan Renhao is also very guilty, after getting married, most of his time was not spent at home, not on his relatives, but on the battlefield. Although this is his duty as a soldier of the Imperial Navy, as the backbone of this family, he also has the responsibility and obligation to take care of his relatives. This is also where Tan Renhao feels guilty, he has thrown too much responsibility to his wife. I lost it to my parents, and every time I came home, it was like entering a safe haven. But this is not only a haven for him, but also a haven for his relatives, and when necessary, he has to take on the responsibilities and obligations of his family.

I sat in the study for a while. Tan Renhao really couldn't stand those documents. He left the study and went to the bedroom, where his wife was not there. Then he heard his wife's laughter coming from downstairs, and when he came into the hall, he found that there were guests, only half of them, to be exact.

"Renhao, come on!" Liao Yingyu turned around and beckoned to her husband, "The eldest brother came to see us, this is the rarest thing." ”

Tan Renhao walked up with a smile. "Hong Peng, what kind of wind blew you here?"

Liao Hongpeng, who was dressed in military uniform, also came over with a smile, he saluted Tan Renhao first, which made Tan Renhao a little at a loss, and quickly returned the salute.

"Don't be so poor, at home, there are so many rules."

"That's as it should be, we're all in military uniforms!" Liao Hongpeng stroked his sister's head with a smile, and then said to his brother-in-law, "Ren Hao, I have heard about your actions this time, you did a good job, but unfortunately, I was not there at the time, otherwise, I could still pick a bargain." ”

"Where, you're not busy, are you? Let's go upstairs and talk. Tan Renhao has a good impression of this brother-in-law, and he has noticed that the rank on Liao Hongpeng's shoulders has changed, and he is no longer a colonel officer, and now, he realized the reason.

"Brother, you go up and talk, I'll help below, and I'll call you when you're eating." Liao Yingyu's movement is a little inconvenient, so she doesn't like to go up and down the stairs often.

Tan Renhao lifted Liao Hongpeng's small duffel bag, he first took Liao Hongpeng to the guest room, and after arranging a place for his brother-in-law to live, he took Liao Hongpeng to the study.

"Isn't it just there?" Tan Renhao made Liao Hongpeng a cup of coffee, "How are you doing along the way?" ”

"It's not bad, it's just not very used to flying." Liao Hongpeng took the coffee cup, "Is my dad okay?" ”

Tan Renhao hesitated for a moment, and then sat down on the sofa opposite Liao Hongpeng. "It should be fine, I've only been back for a few days, and I heard that a new offensive operation is being planned now."

Liao Hongpeng nodded, pondered for a while, and then said: "Actually, when I came back this time, I also stopped by to see you, and it was the chief of staff who asked me to come back." ”

"Ready to give you a new location?" Tan Renhao had already guessed it.

"yes, but I don't know what position I've been assigned to yet." Liao Hongpeng sighed, "When I received the news, I still didn't believe it. ”

"After you are promoted, you should not continue to be in the front-line troops." Tan Renhao glanced at the rank of brigadier general on his brother-in-law's shoulder, "This was put on for you on the front line?" ”

"General Yan Guozhong put it on me, and I was confused at the time."

"That's a good thing, isn't it?" Tan Renhao laughed, "Actually, I also know that you don't want to leave the submarine force, but you should understand that your current experience is very valuable, and this time it will definitely give you a better position and give you more opportunities to display your talents." ”

"My talent is on the submarine, not on the dock." Liao Hongpeng is clearly still a little unhappy with the change.

"Why don't I accompany you to the chief of staff tomorrow?"

Liao Hongpeng laughed. "There's no need for this, if you go too, then General Gan Yongxing will think I'm pulling the relationship. Put pressure on him. ”

"Not really, but, I think. It's time to think about your future, too. ”

Tan Renhao leaned back on the sofa, "Hong Peng." I'm not pointing fingers at you, I just think that as soldiers, we have to obey orders first, and second. We have to give full play to our abilities and make the greatest contribution, not just pursue personal honor and personal ideals, right? ”

Liao Hongpeng nodded slightly, he was born in a military family, and he knew this concept better than Tan Renhao.

"If it is absolutely necessary, the chief of staff will not transfer the commander of the Empire's number one submarine from the front line, and there must be something very important to let you come back this time."

"Maybe. Probably let me go to Germany. ”

"Germany!?" Tan Renhao looked at Liao Hongpeng in surprise. He had already guessed that Liao Hongpeng knew the reason for this transfer, but he didn't ask directly at first. And now that Liao Hongpeng said it, he was still surprised.

"I heard that the German Navy will have a very advanced submarine in service at the end of this year, with better performance than what we are using now. It is also much better than the submarine being used by the German Navy, and it can even be said that it is a completely new submarine. Liao Hongpeng took out a cigarette, "Let me come back this time, probably to let me go to Germany, maybe the empire has got the design drawings of the submarine from Germany, and is ready to start construction in China." ”

"So, let you go over and familiarize yourself with the situation of the new submarine, and after we build it ourselves, we can form combat effectiveness as soon as possible?"

Liao Hongpeng nodded slightly. "Maybe there are other reasons, after all, these things can be arranged for ordinary captains to come over, or it is more appropriate to arrange for someone else to come over."

Tan Renhao pondered for a while and said, "Then when are you leaving?" ”

"I don't know, this won't be clear until I've seen the staff officer dirty."

"It's okay, let's go to Germany to relax, maybe you can bring us a German sister-in-law back."

Liao Hongpeng was stunned for a moment, and then laughed awkwardly.

"I'm not kidding you." Tan Renhao pretended to be serious, "Dad has mentioned your marriage to me several times, and now Yingyu is about to become a mother, and you are about to become an uncle, haven't you thought about your own affairs?" ”

"To be honest, it's not that there is no consideration, but that there is no time to consider." Liao Hongpeng shrugged his shoulders, "You also know what life is like in the fleet, the conditions on the submarine are even worse than on the battleship." Dozens of big men are locked in a tin cabinet, and one time is a few months, not to mention personal marriage problems, I'm afraid it's good to see a woman. ”

"That means you already have a goal?"

"Looks like you're here to trick me, aren't you?" Liao Hongpeng laughed, "To be exact, no. ”

Tan Renhao also laughed. "Then don't go find one. By the way, Qinglian is in the art troupe, or I'll ask her to introduce you to one? ”

"That's not necessary, do you think your brother-in-law can't even find a wife?"

"That's not what I meant, who is Liao Hongpeng, it's all published in the newspaper, I'm afraid, many girls are knocking on your door now!"

Liao Hongpeng shook his head and smiled. "Come on, did you learn this from Hao Dongjue?"

"Big brother, don't misunderstand people, Hao Dongjue is a lot more serious now, otherwise how dare I marry my sister to him?" Tan Renhao thinks this brother-in-law is very interesting. "Okay, let's talk about you. Although I am also a naval officer, to be honest, I really don't know much about submarines, and I have never been on a submarine before. ”

"If you have the chance, I'll take you around the submarine, and you'll know what the submarine looks like.

Liao Hongpeng also got serious, "However, you were really ruthless last time, you sank all the main battleships, and when I arrived, there was not even a single shrimp left." ”

Tan Renhao knew that Liao Hongpeng was talking about the "Battle of the Coral Sea", and he had heard other people mention that after the battle, the submarines that came from other directions in the Coral Sea were all in the air, and the submarine captains who were still holding on to the situation that could kill a few injured American warships were extremely disappointed, and even complained that the fleet was too uninteresting and wiped out all the American troops, and did not even leave them a mouthful of soup.

Liao Hongpeng's topic was also opened, the submarine was his own choice, Liao Hanxiang always hoped that his son could serve in the aviation force, at least to serve in the fleet, but as a result, Liao Hongpeng applied for the submarine academy behind his father's back, and graduated with the best grades that year, entered the submarine force, from the third officer to the captain, and then the war broke out. For more than four years, Liao Hongpeng has been the luckiest submarine captain. More than sixty percent of the captains who served with him had died, and he was still active on the battlefield, both because of his outstanding abilities and because of his luck. On several occasions, Liao Hongpeng's submarine almost never returned, especially when he was on a mission in the Hawaiian Islands, when he found the 51st Task Force under the command of Spruance, and the communication system on the submarine was blown up, and everyone thought he was finished, but as a result, more than a month later, his submarine miraculously returned to Iwo Jima. He then moved to the Southwest Pacific, where he attacked sea transportation routes from the continental United States to mainland Australia.

Over the past four years, Liao Hongpeng has sunk dozens of ships at sea. If you look at the number of sunken ships, Liao Hongpeng is the third ace captain of the imperial submarine force. If calculated in terms of the total tonnage of the sunken ships, he was the number one ace captain of the Imperial submarine forces. But the submarine force is different from the fleet, and even the air force, the captain has already reached the end, and if you want to continue to be promoted, you have to leave the front-line combat unit, go to the rear to be a submarine detachment, or the commander of a brigade, you have to stay in the rear, not like the fleet, after becoming the captain of the ship, there are also positions such as the commander of the formation, the commander of the battle group, the chief of staff of the fleet, the commander of the fleet, and even the commander of the combined fleet, etc., and they are all front-line operations.

This is also the reason why Liao Hongpeng has refused to leave the captain's position. He had already been promoted twice in a row, but after colonel he became commodore general, and according to the establishment of the Imperial Navy, brigadier generals could not continue to serve on submarines, and no country would let a general command a submarine. But everyone knows that the submarine captain has the highest death rate among all kinds of front-line officers in the navy, which is why Liao Hanxiang has always wanted to transfer Liao Hongpeng to the rear. Liao Hanxiang only has such a son, and he is a very disobedient son, he doesn't want to have no successor!

The two chatted for a while, and when it was time to eat, the two left the study. After chatting with Liao Hongpeng, Tan Renhao also had a partial understanding of the situation of the submarine force.