After completing five days of training with its brother troops in the waters of Snake Island, the fleet began to return south, and General Liao Hanxiang took Wu Xianyu, Ji Xiaobin and Tan Renhao on a seaplane. They did not return with the fleet, but went directly to Dagu. This is the home port of the First Fleet, and the headquarters of the First Fleet is located here.

When they arrived in Dagu, Tan Renhao learned that Marshal Sajting had arrived in advance, and the marshal had personally come to the seaplane dock to greet them. This was the second time Tan Renhao had seen this admiral who led the Imperial Navy to victory over several powerful enemies in the last great war. Different from the impression last time, this time Marshal Sajiting was very happy and was more polite to General Liao Hanxiang.

"Behave normally, now Marshal Saditing has remembered you!"

Tan Renhao was stunned for a moment, and before he could react from Colonel Ji Xiaobin's words, Marshal Sajiting just after greeting General Liao Hanxiang, crossed Wu Xianyu and Ji Xiaobin, and walked directly in front of Tan Renhao.

"Ensign, I heard that you have made a very great contribution to the Fifth Fleet," Marshal Saditing looked very kind, but with the majesty of an Imperial Field Marshal. "Yes, young man, you remind me of my youth, and fifty years ago, when I graduated from the Naval Academy, I was just like you are now!"

Everyone laughed, the marshal was almost seventy years old, and fifty years ago, he walked out of the Imperial Naval Academy with the gold medal of the Sea Lion, and began his brilliant career as a naval soldier. At the same time, everyone's gaze at Tan Renhao has also changed a lot, and it is not easy for the naval commander to compare himself to a second lieutenant officer when he was young.

"Thank you Marshal for the compliment, I will continue to work hard!" Tan Renhao didn't dare to slack off in the slightest, and immediately said the sentence that came to mind.

Sajiting nodded, and suddenly asked, "What is the relationship between General Tan Zhenbing and you?" ”

Tan Renhao was stunned for a moment, and shook his head embarrassedly: "Marshal, I am a Tan family from Wenzhou, and General Tan Zhenbing is from Shandong. ”

In the last major war, the Southwest Fleet led by General Tan Zhenbing blocked the Western Combined Fleet in the waters of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which won the Second Fleet extremely valuable preparation time, which was the basis for the Second Fleet to delay the Western Combined Fleet in the waters of the Anambas Islands for nearly a year. However, Vice Admiral Tan Zhenbing was also martyred in this battle, becoming one of the highest-ranking generals to be lost by the Imperial Navy in the last war. The most important thing is that Tan Zhenbing is one of Marshal Sajiting's disciples, and he is one of the marshal's most proud disciples.

Sajetin shuddered with the others for a few more moments, and then everyone left the dock and took their respective vehicles to the headquarters of the First Fleet.

"You and General Tan Zhenbing are not from the same family?" Ji Xiaobin was obviously also very interested in this issue.

Tan Renhao shook his head with a smile and said, "Maybe it was one family five hundred years ago, but General Tan Zhenbing is a descendant of the 'town', and his great-grandfather is the same generation, so maybe it really has something to do with it." ”

Both laughed. If you extrapolate from age, Tan Zhenbing should be about the same as Tan Renhao's grandfather, obviously, even if the two "Tan" families have a little relationship, they are also very distant relatives.

Relatively speaking, the command of the First Fleet was too "luxurious". At the beginning, the Imperial Navy was established on the basis of the First Fleet, and the first headquarters of the Imperial Navy was in Dagu, and it has been used for hundreds of years. The current First Fleet Command is located on the site of the former Navy Headquarters, south of the current Navy Dagu Museum District, and is a new base built with a huge amount of money more than 50 years ago.

Tan Renhao was deeply touched, if the First Fleet Command was like a luxurious quadrangle compound, then the Fifth Fleet Command was not even a cottage in the countryside. The office building of the First Fleet Command is a full seven stories high, and there is also an elevator, and from the top floor, you can see the entire Dagu Port, as well as dozens of large warships of the First Fleet moored in Dagu Port. In addition, the entire headquarters is like a huge garden, and there are many precious flowers and plants among them. The officers' quarters and non-commissioned officers' quarters are all newly renovated, and they look like small villas. This is the gap between the First Fleet and the Fifth Fleet, which gives Tan Renhao a great contrast. Now, he finally understands why everyone looks down on the Fifth Fleet.

General Pei Yuming greeted General Liao Hanxiang and his party at the headquarters, and then Sajiting called all the generals to the conference room, and Tan Renhao and Ji Xiaobin went to the fleet hotel alone.

"To be honest, sometimes, I really envy the First Fleet." The two did not call a taxi, but decided to walk to the hotel where they stayed, and Ji Xiaobin also looked very emotional. "Every year, the First Fleet has 55 million in activities and construction funds, and how much do we have? Less than ten million, and this also includes the cost of the construction of the headquarters. ”

Seeing Ji Xiaobin shaking his head and sighing at the same time, Tan Renhao also felt that it was not a good taste. However, just as they walked out of the courtyard outside the headquarters office building, Tan Renhao saw a familiar figure.

Fan Peikun was also stunned when he saw Tan Renhao, but he immediately walked over. "Second Lieutenant Tan Renhao, congratulations, I didn't expect it to attract the attention of the marshal so quickly, it seems that in the future, you will rise to prominence and become the first student to wear a gold star epaulette in the 192nd period!"

There was obvious sarcasm in Van Peikun's words. "Epaulettes of Venus" is an alternative name given to the rank of admiral by officers of the Imperial Navy, because the rank of admiral wears a golden eight-pointed star instead of the silver eight-pointed star of ordinary officers.

Tan Renhao grabbed in front of Colonel Ji Xiaobin, who wanted to teach this little lieutenant a lesson, and said, "Second Lieutenant Fan Peikun, you are also doing well, you are now in full swing!" ”

"Then we'll see!"

Tan Renhao made a gesture of please, and then left the First Fleet Headquarters compound with Ji Xiaobin.

"Who is he?" Ji Xiaobin's look showed that he hated Fan Peikun very much.

"The descendants of Marshal Fan Shien, however, there is no demeanor of the marshal back then!"

Ji Xiaobin was stunned for a moment, and then laughed. The Fan family is one of the four major families of the Imperial Navy, and ordinary people can't afford to mess with this alone, so it's no wonder that Tan Renhao is unwilling to directly confront an officer of the same rank.