The salvage of the light cruiser was official, and Hong Kong was empty.

Hundreds of thousands of people all gathered on both sides of Victoria Harbour in anticipation, and Lu Yuan repeatedly advertised on the radio not to watch in case the Japanese air raids and bombings caused large-scale casualties, but it was still useless.

As a last resort, Lu Yuan could only order the air brigade to take off and block the surrounding airspace, and the four destroyers and submarines were also patrolling the surrounding waters day and night, and all merchant ships and other fleets were not allowed to come within 20 nautical miles of Hong Kong, otherwise they would all be sunk!

Twenty or thirty merchant ships were moored around the sunken Japanese light cruisers, and huge steel supports were slowly erected with the support of these merchant ships, and divers wearing the latest diving suits developed by the Deep Diving Equipment Laboratory dived again and again, fixing those steel cables to the light cruisers......

It took half a month to do that.

Watching the huge light cruiser slowly emerge from the water like a small mountain, the people on both sides of the harbor were boiling.

Although the salvage of the light cruiser is not a great project in the eyes of the professional team, in the eyes of these Hong Kong people, the emergence of this light cruiser is equivalent to the security of Hong Kong's sea, and it is not as dependent on the British as before, this time, they are on their own!

"Long live the commander-in-chief of the road, long live the commander-in-chief of the road......"

Countless people shouted and cheered to their heart's content, and the pride and pride brought by their own strength made I don't know how many people shed tears of happiness!

As soon as the light cruiser came out of the water, the R&D team led by Lu Gang immediately carried out the repair and transformation work, and under their work day and night, through the study of the latest aid warship and the Mindanao, they also had a lot of experience, and now they are ready to use it on this light cruiser, they believe that the light cruiser after the repair and transformation will be able to improve in all aspects compared with before.

This light cruiser, named Pioneer.

By the time the Pioneer had been thoroughly restored and transformed, and the Patriotic Fleet formed on the basis of the Pioneer had been successfully launched for sea trials, the time had already entered August 1941.

A lot has happened in the past six months.

Germany began to decline on the European battlefield, under the command of Stalin, Hitler's plan to capture Moscow failed, Hitler began his frenzied plan to exterminate the Jews, and the German army began Operation Blue, which began an all-out attack on the Soviet Union.

On the Asian battlefield, the Japanese army was proud, except for the Chinese theater.

Kuala Lumpur, Malacca, Myanmar, India, have all fallen, Singapore surrendered to Japan, and the U.S. army saw that it could not resist the attack of the Japanese army, so it directly withdrew from the Philippines, and the Philippines fell completely.

In the Chinese theater, the Japanese army, under the command of Okamura Ninji, in addition to defending against Chongqing's large-scale attack, also launched a large-scale sweep against the base areas behind enemy lines in Yan'an, and pursued his three-light policy in an attempt to contain the Eighth Route and the development momentum of the New Fourth Army became more and more fierce.

However, the China of today is no longer the China they had just launched a full-scale war, nor is it the China that Lu Yuan had seen in history.

Xue Yue's troops went out of Changsha and joined forces with the Gui army to completely drive the Japanese army out of Guangdong, because Song Qing, who had made outstanding achievements in the battle at the end of the 39th year, had already been promoted to three levels in a row and became the commander of the corps.

In terms of the Eighth Road, the Japanese army was also broken again and again, the base area in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei region was expanded several times, most of Shanxi was completely recovered, and only a small part of the Japanese army stuck to the city of Taiyuan Datong, retreated to defense, and resisted stubbornly.

In the Central Plains, in addition to the sporadic Japanese army held on to the important towns, the Japanese army was almost forced back to the front line of the three northeastern provinces before the start of the full-scale war, and the decline was fully revealed!

But in the Pacific, the Japanese Empire began to suffer a series of crushing defeats, even after they succeeded in a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor and nearly crippled the U.S. Pacific Fleet.

In May, in the Battle of Coral Island, the Japanese failed to defeat the Allied aircraft carrier fleet as expected, but suffered heavy losses on two of their own aircraft carriers and were forced to suspend the attack on the port of Moresby, and the pace of military expansion was once again halted.

Although the Allied Navy failed to take advantage of the Battle of Coral Island, in the following Battle of Midway, they inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese Navy, sinking four Japanese aircraft carriers, shooting down more than 300 fighters, and killing more than 3,000 people, while the Allied side only lost more than 300 people and lost more than 100 fighters from two aircraft carriers.

At this moment, even the war maniac Hideki Tojo has already heard the doomsday lament that has been sung.

In the Hong Kong military intelligence room, the sound of telegraph kept ringing, dripping non-stop.

The faces of Mardeshivales and the others were extremely nervous, they were concerned about the Battle of Guadalcanal near Guadalcanal, and by virtue of the victory in the Battle of Midway, the Allies, under the command of Admiral Chester William Nimitz, commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet, were ambitious to inflict another heavy blow on the Japanese army!

But it is obvious that the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet, Admiral Yamamoto 56, will never admit defeat easily, and even deliberately wants to avenge the defeat in the Battle of Midway!

Lu Yuan obviously didn't have any heart to care about how heavy the complacent Yankees would pay in the Battle of Kuah Island, and he was now trying his best to sell his plan to the Yankees and British-let Britain send a fleet to East Asia, and then cooperate with their own patriotic fleet, as well as the 30,000-strong army that had been trained, to attack Taiwan, and after taking Taiwan, there was hope to directly attack the Japanese island!

You must know that the distance between Taiwan and Okinawa, Japan is only more than 100 kilometers!

Japan's dispatch of troops to China caused a monstrous wave of blood on the land of China, and he wanted too much to lead the army into the main island of Japan, and also let the Japanese taste what it was like to have the flames of war burning on their own land!

But it is clear that the Yankees are not at all interested in Lu Yuan's plans.

After all, Japan has now become a piece of fat, and the Yankees want to swallow it by themselves, and they are absolutely unwilling to let Lu Yuan get involved.

At the U.S. military headquarters, he forced Mardeshi to ask him to contact Nimitz for him, hoping to convince this guy.

"Commander-in-Chief ......"

Mardeshi said with a constipated expression: "Haven't you seen it yet?" In the Battle of Midway, the Pacific Fleet fought the Japanese who lost their armor, and the Americans don't need you at all, they themselves can go all the way from the South Pacific to the Japanese nest - I am saying, our current strength is indeed more than enough for self-preservation, but it is not realistic to attack Taiwan or even the Japanese mainland......"

"If you get in touch, you can get in touch, so much nonsense!"

Lu Yuan slapped the table and jumped up and roared, "Why do you still need you to teach me?" The Japanese did not bring the flames of war to your hometown, you did not see your own compatriots die in pieces, of course you are willing to happily retreat to Hong Kong and enjoy the blessings, but can we?

He was sure that now and in the future, one thing that all Chinese soldiers would dream of doing was to hit the main island of Japan, and we would return to them tenfold and hundredfold what the Japanese devils had done to us!

(End of chapter)