"It is advisable to chase the poor bravely, and not to sell the name of the overlord."

When the generals asked Zhang Meng if they would continue to pursue the remnants of the Combined Fleet with victory, Zhang Meng told them.

However, a few days ago, when the Tang Army's aircraft carrier battle group was chasing the combined fleet all the way, it threw away the slower supply fleet.

After a fierce battle, the Tang Army's aircraft carrier battle group was already quite short of ammunition and water.

For this reason, the Tang army had to stop and recuperate, let the pilots rest and recuperate, and at the same time ordered the supply fleet in the rear to rush to converge.

"The combined fleet of the Japanese army has suffered heavy losses, and the balance of liliang at sea in the Pacific Rim has been broken. Our army should quickly fill the vacuum of maritime hegemony left by the shrinkage of the Japanese navy, that is, the islands occupied by the Japanese army in the Pacific should be occupied by our Tang Empire. ”

After Zhang Meng consulted with the generals, he agreed that the Tang army should occupy the islands controlled by the Japanese army, as an impregnable fortress and unsinkable aircraft carrier of the absolute defense circle of the Tang Empire.

At this time, the 1st Marine Division of the Tang Army had completed the occupation of the entire Marshall Islands, and Zhang Meng immediately ordered Zheng Shaoqiu to quickly organize troops to rush to the Northern Mariana Islands with the supply fleet, preparing to capture Saipan and its nearby islands controlled by the Japanese army.

The news that the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire defeated the Japanese Combined Fleet and won the naval battle has been officially released by the Information Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Tang Empire.

If we talk about the first Tang-Japanese naval battle, the Tang army completely annihilated the powerful fleet of Ono Sanno. Shijie countries thought that the Japanese army was too arrogant and the Tang Army sneak attack was lucky, so this time the Japanese Navy dispatched all the main warships of the Combined Fleet, but they were still defeated by the Tang Army. It can even be said that it was completely annihilated, because six main battleships of the Japanese Combined Fleet were sunk.

"That's six super dreadnought battleships, how did the Tang Royal Navy sink them? Or by submarines? A British journalist asked.

"This time, the first aircraft carrier battle group of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire has achieved brilliant results, which are all the victories achieved by all the officers and men of the Tang Army under the wise command of His Royal Highness Zhang Meng, the commander of the army, navy and air force of the empire, and the submarine is just one of them." The spokesman explained, deliberately avoiding the topic of how to sink six Japanese super dreadnought battleships.

"There is a general belief in the navies of various countries that only battleships can sink battleships. However, it seems that there are no battleships in your aircraft carrier battle group, so could it be that the latest Raptor carrier-based fighters and Hellfire carrier-based bombers of your naval aviation are relied upon? A senior female reporter in France continued to ask, and she seemed to know a lot about the equipment of the Tang Army's aircraft carrier battle group.

This journalist friend seems to have great powers. The two carrier-based fighters newly installed by the naval aviation of the Tang Empire are advanced in performance, and they are sufficient to protect the airspace, territorial waters, and territory of the Tang Empire from being violated. As for the fact that you mentioned that battleships can only be sunk by battleships, I personally agree with that. ”

"But your country does not have battleships, how did you sink the six super battleships of the Japanese army? Please don't beat around the bush! "An American journalist couldn't help it.

The spokesman of the Datang Information Office has been preaching how powerful the Tang Empire and the Tang Army were. How advanced the equipment is. Consistently avoiding the real concerns of journalists and governments is a barrage of inconsequential nonsense with no real value.

Of course, nonsense is a must, and this is one of the skills that a press spokesperson must have, and it is also a clever speaking skill to answer questions from reporters, and this is the case for press spokesmen in all countries.

However, the Americans clearly rely on the strength of their country. regarded himself as the boss of Shijie, and even asked the Datang News spokesman to answer.

Americans are used to arrogance. Journalists from all over the world have long been surprised, and at the same time, they want to know the answer, and they have united to demand an answer.

The spokesman of Datang News originally organized words to prevaricate American reporters, but he never thought that reporters from various countries would unite together, so he had no choice but to answer.

Of course, as a press spokesman, he had already exchanged views with the high-level personnel of the Tang Empire before entering the press conference.

Zhang Meng sent back a telegram instructing him to downplay the Liliang of the Tang Army's aircraft carrier battle group as much as possible. According to this principle, the spokesman of Datang News immediately responded.

"As far as I know, the lack of anti-aircraft artillery on the main battleships of the Japanese Navy, due to the cutting of corners in armor, they are only in vain, and it is more appropriate to call them battlecruisers than battleships."

The fact that the Japanese battleships were battlecruisers was believed by many people. However, more people still believe that the Japanese warships lacked sufficient anti-aircraft artillery, which gave the Tang army's planes the opportunity to drop aerial bombs on the Japanese ships.

Even if this reason is a bit far-fetched, but this is just a press conference, and how many military secrets can be revealed? No matter what Datang says, as a winner, it makes sense.

Knowing that there was no more valuable information to be asked about this, the reporters changed the subject.

"May I ask if the Tang Empire has won such an unprecedented victory, will it take advantage of the victory to sue for peace with Japan, or will it continue to fight against Japan?"

Reporters from China are very concerned about this issue, after all, the Japanese army has just concocted the August 15 Incident to invade and occupy the entire northeast of China, and in order to divert international attention, it launched the 128 Incident in Shanghai, provoking the Sino-Japanese War and forcing the Nationalist Government to move its capital to Luoyang, and a Sino-Japanese war is imminent.

"The Tang Empire is a peace-loving country, and it was Japan that peeked into the economic achievements and national wealth of the Tang Empire and launched a war, and it was they who first declared war on us, and it should be the Japanese side that sued for peace, and the Tang Empire will make a truce or continue to pursue the relevant choices depending on the situation."

Originally, Japan had succeeded in attracting the attention of all Shijie in Shanghai, and was preparing to concoct a puppet regime of Manchukuo to cover up its invasion of Northeast China. But unexpectedly, the Tang Empire defeated and severely damaged the Japanese Combined Fleet, causing the Japanese Navy Liliang to suddenly fall from a first-class naval power to a third-rate power, and the eyes of the whole Shijie were attracted to the almost total annihilation of the Japanese Combined Fleet.

So. European and American countries were no longer afraid of Japan, because the vitality of the Japanese Navy was greatly damaged, and only a few heavy cruisers were left of the main battleships. It will be difficult to recover in the next few years, unless Japan once again makes every effort to build ships on a large scale, but it is difficult for Japan, which has been severely hit by the economic crisis, to come up with billions of dollars in shipbuilding funds. Even if Japan does everything to start building ships, it will take at least three years or more to rebuild the Liliang of the Combined Fleet.

The countries of Europe and the United States will no longer look at Japan's face and act on it, so the situation in the entire Northeast Asia will change in an instant, and Japan's invasion of Northeast China and the provocation of war in Shanghai will be met with strong counterattacks from the European and American countries, and how to deal with the aftermath will become the most troublesome thing for the Japanese Government.

The Tang Empire is obviously not going to let Japan breathe a sigh of relief. They will beat the water dogs and unite the European and American powers and China to suppress Japanese imperialism.

"Japan is an extremely aggressive country, and we, the Tang Empire, will unite European and American countries to defend the peace of Shijie. Together, they put pressure on Japan to withdraw its troops from Shanghai and Northeast China. ”

As soon as this news was released, it represented that the Tang Empire officially became one of the Shijie naval powers after this war. If the great powers of various countries respond positively to the Tang Empire, it means that they recognize the rising status of the Tang Empire. But if they don't respond. It will be strongly criticized by international public opinion. Affect the image of the country.

When the press conference of the Tang Empire ended, the governments of various powers held emergency meetings one after another, in addition to discussing the Japanese issue, there was also a new opponent - the powerful Tang Empire.

No matter how European and American countries respond, the Tang Empire has undoubtedly become the biggest winner.

The Tang army won a great victory, and its momentum not only overshadowed the edge of the Japanese army, but also caused it to lose the attention of the international community. At the same time, for Zhang Meng personally, he no longer has to pretend to be Zhang Xinhai's son. Instead, he became his true self again.

Zhang Wei told Han Qingxuan the truth of the matter, and she knew that Han Qingxuan's personality would not be spoken. hopes that Han Qingxuan will take the initiative to cancel this marriage. Unexpectedly, the conversation between the two of them was overheard by the subordinates, and the result quickly spread throughout the entire Tang Empire, because of Zhang Meng's fame, all the gossip news was immediately known.

Zhang Xinhai and his wife called Zhang Wei to force her to tell the truth, and the second elder immediately cried and fell unconscious several times.

Song Meiling, who accompanied Han Qingxuan to the Tang Dynasty, was dumbfounded, and this political marriage suddenly collapsed because of this Zhang Meng and not Zhang Meng. Song Meiling planned to take the opportunity to persuade Zhang Xinhai to seize the real power of the entire Tang Empire, after all, Zhang Xinhai is the emperor of the Tang Empire, but Zhang Meng's control of the Tang Empire is far beyond her imagination, although everyone knows the fact that Zhang Meng is not Zhang Xinhai's son, but they have a higher opinion of Zhang Meng, after all, to serve Zhang Xinhai and his wife as a stranger, and even let Zhang Xinhai directly become the emperor, how can this kind of mind not be admired.

The Tang Empire was under Zhang Meng's firm control like an iron bucket, and although Zhang Xinhai lamented the loss of his biological son, he did not lose his mind and categorically rejected Song Meiling's request.

Zhang Xinhai has his own insistence, and he has always been upright in the face of righteousness.

Zhang Wei didn't expect this result, but fortunately, Zhang Xinhai and his wife withstood the blow, which has a lot to do with Zhang Meng's meticulous care in recent years. Zhang Wei was grateful in her heart, and strictly restrained some people from the Zhang family from coming nonsense, even if Zhang Meng was not their real young master, this Tang Dynasty was also Zhang Meng's and not the Zhang family.

Zhang Fu, Zhang Zhong and Zhang Chengye were very entangled, after learning Zhang Meng's true identity, Zhang Fu just sighed, Zhang Zhong felt that it didn't matter if he was the real young master of the Zhang family. Only Zhang Cheng was even more frightened when he learned the news in Shanghai. He once supported Song Meiling and asked Zhang Xinhai to drive Zhang Meng out of Zhang's house, intending to seize the entire Tang Empire, but in the end he found that Zhang Meng had already made all the preparations, otherwise it would be impossible for Zhang Wei to tell the truth.

Everything was under Zhang Meng's control, and when the news of the Tang Army's defeat of the Japanese Combined Fleet came back, people's eyes were attracted, and the fact that Zhang Meng was not Zhang Xinhai's son was quickly diluted.

This is also a comprehensive consideration made by Zhang Meng from the beginning, he personally commanded the Tang Navy to fight, in addition to establishing prestige and strengthening control over the navy, but also deliberately used this battle to divert people's curiosity and attention from his life experience.

Zhang Meng obviously succeeded, and the whole Shijie was shocked by the defeat of the Japanese Combined Fleet, and Zhang Meng's personal background was no longer important.

For the Tang Empire, a small pebble fell into a calm lake and caused a small ripple, but before it spread, it was hit by a big boulder, and the small ripples were covered by the big waves, and the people on the shore only saw the big waves and ignored the small ripples.

It didn't take long for the entire Tang Empire, a big lake, to return to its former calm.

However, Shijie outside the Tang Empire is even crazier. The defeat of the Japanese Combined Fleet was hit hard, this huge impact is no less than the explosion of a nuclear bomb, a new military power in the Pacific Ocean has risen strongly, what kind of impact will it bring to the existing Shijie pattern, Shijie Navy ushered in a new round of reshuffle, which is something that all countries have to consider. (To be continued......)