Liao Hanxiang has not returned to Zhoushan for several months. Nominally, Liao Hanxiang is the commander of the strategic strike force, but in fact Liao Hanxiang is more like the commander of the logistics support of the strategic strike force. Now the two major generals Luo Yunchong and Qi Changan (commander of the Second Army of Strategic Strike) are in charge of the front-line operations, and the Third Army, which was originally planned to be established, has been transferred to the reserve (training unit), and Liao Hanxiang does not need to worry about the affairs of the front, and the two young army commanders are very good and have enough ability to command the bomber unit to fight. On the contrary, Liao Hanxiang should be more concerned about the relevant logistical support issues, which also made him spend most of his time on the logistical support of the strategic strike force.

"Actually, the empire is running very well right now."

Liao Hanxiang also looked a lot older, "Although Lord Zong Hanqin is not the kind of commander who can lead us to victory in wartime, Lord Nei Xiang is very good at managing domestic order. Now Lord Xue Xiyue has returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion and resumed presiding over the affairs of the cabinet, and most of the domestic management is represented by Lord Zong Hanqin. The internal order of the empire, the order of production, the military mobilization, etc., are now being carried out in an orderly manner, and no one knows how powerful the empire really is in terms of war potential, not even the prime minister, and now all we need is time. ”

"My enemy won't give us much time." … computer station bsp; Tan Renhao followed Liao Hanxiang into the lawn, "The United States is very likely to do it next month." Based on our analysis of various sources, we believe that early December is the most likely. It's the end of November, and we'll be on the front lines in a few days. ”

Liao Hanxiang nodded slightly, stopped at the side of the hillside, and in front of him was the Zhoushan Military Port, and several warships were preparing to sail. At present, the main fleet of the Imperial Navy deployed in the western Pacific region is out to carry out combat readiness patrol missions, while those who remain in Zhoushan are all escort warships or warships of regional patrol fleets.

"Are you sure the United States will enter the war in early December?"

Liao Hanxiang took out a cigarette.

Tan Renhao took the cigarette and lit it. "The timing is the best. The deployment of US troops is increasing. It will be basically in place by the end of the month. By the beginning of December, our three task forces had already been out on combat duty for several months or even more than half a year, and the officers and men of the fleet were in the most tired state, and the warships also needed to be maintained. Assuming that the war does not explode this year, the third task force will return for maintenance at the end of December, the second task force will drag on until early January at most, and the first task force will also be repaired in Hong Kong at the end of January. The United States will certainly not miss this opportunity. So they are most likely to go to war at the beginning of December. ”

"If this is the case, then whether we can gain an advantage in the first battle will determine the course of the war for at least the next six months."

Liao Hanxiang also lit a cigarette: "At least we now know that the United States will enter the war, and we have predicted the approximate time." The fleet has also entered a state of combat readiness, and the officers and men are ready for battle, are they still afraid of a sneak attack by the United States? ”

Tan Renhao smiled reluctantly. "That's what worries us the most. After the transfer of the U.S. Pacific Fleet to Pearl Harbor, we had less and less information. Now the only thing we can be sure of is that the US Pacific Fleet has at least four ships. Or even five aircraft carriers. Maybe. Now it's down to six. There is absolutely no need for the United States to deploy aircraft carriers in the Atlantic, and all six of its fleet aircraft carriers can be transferred. If it's six aircraft carriers, plus eight battleships of the Pacific Fleet. Twenty or so heavy cruisers, the strength of which is by no means under our three task forces. What's even more troublesome is that now we don't know at all whether the American aircraft carrier is still at Pearl Harbor or has gone somewhere else! ”

"The intelligence services didn't help?"

Liao Hanxiang was secretly shocked, and those who knew aircraft carrier tactics knew that if an aircraft carrier formation suddenly "disappeared", it would mean that war was imminent.

"Hey, the intelligence department isn't a panacea."

Tan Renhao sighed, and then sat down on the grass: "Our intelligence network in the United States is not sound in the first place. There are even fewer intelligence officers who are able to go to the Hawaiian Islands. Most of the intelligence now comes from submarine forces, and we are now equipped with a very limited number of submarines capable of navigating reconnaissance missions to the Hawaiian Islands, and there is no guarantee of maintaining a long-term submarine force in the waters off the Hawaiian Islands. However, I believe that the U.S. aircraft carrier fleet must have left Pearl Harbor, perhaps on its way. ”

Liao Hanxiang also sat down. "So the U.S. Navy has mastered the tactics of an aircraft carrier fleet?"

"We don't know about this, but it doesn't hurt to expect the enemy to be stronger."

Tan Renhao took out a cigarette. "By the way, do you know a young general named Gu Xunlei?"

"Gu Xunlei?"

Liao Hanxiang didn't understand for a while.

"Now he is a major general of the 6th Army, a major general of the armored corps, and he may have been just an ordinary officer before."

Tan Renhao handed a cigarette to Liao Hanxiang: "He came out with General Shi Naixing." ”

"Gu Xunlei ......"

Liao Hanxiang pondered for a moment, and suddenly laughed: "Are you talking about the second lieutenant under Shi Naixing?" I knew him when he was a second lieutenant. I met Shi Naixing when I visited him when I arrived at HNA. At that time, he was a staff officer of Shi Naixing, and he looked ordinary, but now he has become a major general? ”

Tan Renhao smiled and nodded. "It should still be a very important young general. The last time I went to the capital with the principal, he went with Marshal Yan Dingyu, the spokesman of the 6th Army's war plan. ”

"It seems that Yan Dingyu, an old stubborn, has also changed his mind about the land."

Liao Hanxiang suddenly laughed.

Tan Renhao remembered hearing Nie Renfeng also comment on Yan Dingyu, and he looked at Liao Hanxiang a little puzzled.

"During World War I, Marshal Yan Dingyu commanded several beautiful battles, and he was not a marshal at that time. In several major battles, the marshal's credit was great, which was also the basis for him to become the commander of the 6th Army. Now there are many Yan generals in the 6th Army, almost all of whom are his subordinates who were brought out on the battlefield at that time. ”

Liao Hanxiang sighed: "It's a pity that I am not a strict general, and at that time I advocated the development of strategic aviation instead of tactical aviation. You know the results. Yan Dingyu has always believed that we can drag down any opponent, such as Russia, through a long war of attrition, as we did in World War I. In fact, more than two years. The 6th Army used this as its basic tactic in the Northwest Theater and even in the Korean Theater. As a result, you can see that it is not only the enemy that is consumed, but also ourselves. Now that the Navy has opened up the situation first, the pressure on the 6th Army can be imagined. Xue Xiyue was born in the 6th Army, he didn't want to see the 6th Army being pressed by the Navy like this, and Marshal Yan Dingyu must also have a lot of pressure. Otherwise, he would not have used the young officers of the Shi Naixing faction. ”

"Does it matter?"

Factional struggle is a common problem of the Navy 6 and the Army. Before Nie Renfeng came to power, the factions within the navy were also very distinct, but Nie Renfeng had been the principal of the military academy for 20 years and had a wide background (no matter what faction, almost all of them had Nie Renfeng's students), otherwise the factional struggle within the navy would definitely not be under the 6th Army.

"Shi Naixing is a general of the Luo family, you don't need to know too much about this."

Liao Hanxiang sighed secretly: "Let's put it this way, even I, a layman in the armored corps, know the advanced nature of the tactical theory put forward by General Shi Naixing. Aren't the Germans and Russians now using similar armored tactics? Throughout the Eastern European theater. If it weren't for the close strength of Russia and Germany. I'm afraid it's already a different scene. But why didn't Marshal Yan Dingyu adopt this tactical theory? If it were only because of the marshal's conservative views, it would certainly not make sense. ”

"Factional fighting?"

Tan Renhao smiled bitterly, this is the biggest internal friction of the emperor ** team.

"Yes. Factional struggles. ”

Liao Hanxiang threw away his cigarette butt: "Now that Marshal Yan Dingyu has activated Gu Xunlei, this group of young officers who insist on fighting in the armored corps group must have figured this out and put down the factional struggle." Maybe it's not too late, at least in these two years we haven't lost the most elite units of the 6th Army, and there is still a lot of hope. ”

"I hope so, and I believe it. The 6th Army will definitely make a difference after the focus is on young officers. ”

Tan Renhao also threw away his cigarette butts, "If the 6th Army has not made any improvement in the past two years, someone will be unlucky." ”

"Actually, the most unlucky one is Wei Boyu!"

Liao Hanxiang's expression of disgust was very obvious.

"Wei Boyu is indeed a bastard, and this time he is not in trouble."

Tan Renhao immediately laughed: "The matter of the American Volunteer Air Corps has been stabbed to Xiang by the principal, I heard that Xiang Daguang is so bright that even Marshal Yan Dingyu can't hold his face." Get to the bottom of it. This is caused by the dereliction of duty of the 6th Airlines, and Wei Boyu is the brunt of it, this time he is not unlucky, who will be unlucky? ”

"I've heard about it, too, but don't think too much about it."

Liao Hanxiang lit a cigarette again: "First of all, this is caused by the pressure of the navy, Yan Dingyu, in order to maintain the internal unity of the 6th Army, will never easily replace Wei Boyu, otherwise, where will the face of the 6th Army go?" Secondly, now that the 6th Army is undergoing a comprehensive reform, if Yan Dingyu dismisses the commander of the aviation force at this time because of a small mistake, then what do the commanders of other arms think? The last and most important Wei Boyu has his own background, and Yan Dingyu is also jealous of him, otherwise he is qualified to be the commander of the 6th Aviation? ”

"But ......"

Hearing Liao Hanxiang say this, Tan Renhao was a little big. If you don't die but get bitten by a snake, you will lose a lot. Wei Boyu is the kind of person who can't tolerate sand in his eyes, and he will definitely find an opportunity to retaliate in the future.

"You don't need to worry about having a marshal covering you above, and your performance is so good, are you still afraid that someone will give you a difficult medicine?"

Liao Hanxiang smiled and shook his head: "With my understanding of Yan Dingyu and the 6th Army. Yan Dingyu will definitely take the initiative to take responsibility, and Xue Xiyue will not take the marshal of the 6th Army for a trivial matter, so in the end, Wei Boyu will not be affected. Then, Yan Dingyu will use this matter to put pressure on Wei Boyu, increase the pace of reform of the 6th Army, and let the 6th Army complete the transformation as soon as possible. In this way, Yan Dingyu killed three birds with one stone, not only saved the face of the 6th Army, but also maintained the unity of the 6th Army, and at the same time removed an obstacle to the reform of the 6th Army, why didn't he defend Boyu? ”

Tan Renhao nodded slightly, and after Liao Hanxiang explained the relationship to him clearly, he also understood.

"Actually, the 6th Army should also have behaved, and of course this is not something we should be concerned about."

Liao Hanxiang stood up: "It seems that if I have time, I will call Shi Naixing, this time the reform of the 6th Army is focused on the armored corps, and Shi Naixing is very likely to re-serve as the commander of the armored corps and lead the reform of the 6th Army." If we can take this opportunity to improve the relationship between the two armies, it can be regarded as a little gain for us. ”

"Are you going to leave Zhoushan?"

Tan Renhao immediately followed and stood up.

"There are still a few things to do in the past two days, and after getting a few documents, I will leave Zhoushan. Now that there are so many things going on, I hate myself for being incompetent. ”

Liao Hanxiang laughed: "I'm not worried about anything else, I just want to know one thing, have you and Xiaoyu's marriage been scheduled?" ”

"This ......"

Tan Renhao felt very embarrassed for a while, he hadn't thought about this issue carefully.

"The last time I saw Xiaoyu, she said that you plan to get married after the defeat of Japan, right?"

Tan Renhao was stunned for a moment, and then remembered the promise he made to Liao Yingyu. "yes, that's what I thought before, but now it seems ......"

"What kind of man should be more straightforward, refreshing, mother-in-law, mother-in-law, mother-in-law, mother-in-law, mother-in-law, mother-

Liao Hanxiang patted Tan Renhao's shoulder: "When I chased Xiaoyu's mother back then, it only took a few months, and then I got married in two or three days, and then went to the battlefield." If I hadn't acted decisively at that time, I'm afraid that by the time I came back from the battlefield, I wouldn't have found such a good wife, and there would have been no Xiaoyu. Okay, if you can't make up your mind, I'll arrange it for you, and I'll do it in the next two days. ”

"General's ......"

"Come on, are you the same when you command the fleet?"

Liao Hanxiang frowned, "I'll send someone to Wenzhou to pick up your parents now." Tomorrow Xiaoyu is here, you two will discuss the marriage carefully, and it will be held in your official residence, just invite a few witnesses. Of course, don't forget to register with the civil department, otherwise it won't count. ”

Tan Renhao nodded reluctantly, with such a father-in-law, what else could he say.