The addition of a firing commander with a centimeter-wave radar is absolutely necessary for the air defense of the fleet. It is only www.biquge.info Li Kongrong who has not yet fully announced its true role, and the navy has given priority to the use of it in the main gun fire control. After watching the performance of the Jiankang's main gun, Li Kongrong asked to take a look at the fire control of the anti-secondary artillery. The radar now used is on the fire control of the secondary guns, and the main guns broke down when they were tested in the morning, and he thought that Li Kongrong had boarded the ship to see the main guns.

"Report to the sir, the secondary artillery is a high-level dual-purpose, but we haven't prepared a target aircraft." Yan Youbin said.

"I don't need a target machine, I just look at the secondary artillery fire control system." Li Kongrong didn't notice anything wrong.

"But......" Yan Youbin's forehead began to sweat, "Report to the sir, there are some problems with the performance of the radio detector of the secondary gun, and it has not been repaired yet, so there is no way to turn it on." ”

"Broken?" Li Kongrong's mood plummeted, he was well aware of the stability of early radar, and the Americans called radar baby, which translates into Chinese as the ancestor of radar. He suddenly sensed a question: "Why is the main gun radar not broken, but the secondary gun is broken?" ”

"Sir......" Yan Youbin's face suddenly turned white, and he said, "This is... This is the secondary artillery radar. ”

"Then you still say that the radar performance is stable?" Li Kongrong was a little angry.

"Sir, it's much more stable than before, at least five rounds of salvos have no problems." Yan Youbin became darker and darker the more he depicted, and he really wanted to slap himself in the face. "I ......"

"Then you can say that the radar is unstable." Li Kongrong saw that he was in a hurry, and he felt that his previous expectations of the radar were too much, so that he deliberately greeted him. "Under what conditions is radar generally unstable?"

"Generally in ...... Generally, it will be unstable after a long time on the ship, it will be unstable when the main gun is fired, and it will be unstable when the wind and waves are strong. Yan Youbin sweated. I have already submitted the test report to Chief Lin. ”

"Is there a copy?" Li Kongrong asked, he wanted to see what was written in the report.

"Yes, I'll get it right away." Yan Youbin wanted to go out.

"Wait a minute, let's take a look at the secondary artillery fire control first." Li Kongrong stopped him -- the main gun radar only replaced the optical rangefinder, and he didn't quite understand how to use the secondary artillery fire control radar, so it was impossible for someone to read the radar data to the gunner, right? He didn't know why, but when he saw the secondary artillery shooting, the horizon was clear at a glance. The radar screen horizon is the secondary gun's firing horizon, and it can be fired as long as the gun's crosshair is moved to coincide with the target on the radar horizon. Despite its clever design, a single fire control can only control one turret, and the turret and turret are not coordinated with each other.

It would be nice to have an NTDS system, and on the way from Maine to Chicago and back to New York, Li Kongrong kept thinking about this problem. According to his understanding, NTDS is a local area network system developed by the US Navy to solve the problem of information communication between various ships and guns, and the purpose is to centrally manage and transmit the information received by various aircraft carriers and gun positions of various countries. It's just that in the era when transistor computers didn't exist, LAN was not possible; There is also no ready-to-store data storage technology. Today's radar has a weak ability to track targets, so it is necessary to use additional tracking boards to draw the targets displayed by the radar on the tracking boards, and then manually manage these targets. This is an extremely inefficient method, and it is said that if there are more than twenty targets, the manual tracing board will collapse.

The plane landed steadily at New York's LaGuardia Airport, this is the fourth day that Li Kongrong left New York, Christmas has long passed, and it will be the Gregorian New Year. thought he could take a day off, but when he returned home, he found that Zhou Yingcong was waiting for him.

"Brother Shuchun is here." Li Kongrong knew why Zhou Yingcong was waiting for him.

"It's been a few days." Zhou Yingcong licked his face, he took a few steps closer and said: "Congratulations to Han Sheng, the thirty-five-year-old rear admiral and the commander of the fleet, I knew that I would steal the submarine with you." ”

"Say whatever you want." Li Kongrong has no ill feelings towards him, he only feels that he has been in officialdom for a long time.

"Then I'll be blunt." Zhou Yingcong smiled, "The minister is very angry, why don't you have to use that eighteen-star flag?" The chairman must be unhappy. ”

"Is the minister unhappy or the chairman unhappy?" Li Kongrong asked.

"Oops! If the chairman is not happy, the minister will of course not be happy. The minister said that the navy used the eighteen-star flag is treason. ”

"Yes, we were treason very early." Li Kongrong smiled, "Since you have already committed treason, of course you will use the Eighteen-Star Flag." ”

"But, but ......" Zhou Yingcong didn't expect Li Kongrong to admit treason, and he couldn't come up with anything after saying two, he finally said: "Hansheng, you know what you do, why do you use that eighteen-star flag to go against the government?" The Communist Party and the national government still use the blue sky and white sun flag in life and death, why can't the navy use it? You don't recognize the Kuomintang, but you can't deny the Republic of China, in the early years of the Republic of China, the naval flag was the blue sky and white sun flag. ”

"The navy is the navy, and the government is the government." For Zhou Yingcong, Li Kongrong has nothing to hide. "Even if, as you said, you don't recognize the government and recognize the Republic of China, and then use the naval flag of the blue sky and white sun. You know it's a navy flag, others just think it's a national flag or a party flag. One of the principles of the navy is to draw a clear line of demarcation and take a stand with the party-state, otherwise officers and men will think that they are getting the party-state's salary and eating the party-state's food......"

"Who doesn't know now that the navy has dug up treasures at the bottom of the sea, and the money to buy ships is all earned by themselves?" Zhou Yingcong patted his thigh, he felt that Li Kongrong thought so much.

"Don't interrupt." Li Kongrong drank him. "Officers and soldiers are one idea, and the countries of the world are one idea. If the flag of the navy is the same as that of the national government, it is equivalent to saying that the navy is subordinate to the national government. In the future, when selling naval bonds, if the government announces that everyone should not buy them, otherwise the government will not recognize them, what do you think will be the result? People who use the blue sky and white sun flag will definitely not dare to buy it, because the government has said that the bond will not be recognized in the future; It's different with the iron-blooded eighteen-star flag, it's useless for the government to say it, look at the flag and know that the government and the navy can't pee in the same pot, and the government says that it doesn't admit that it has a dime to do with the navy? ”

Li Kongrong said that Zhou Yingcong's eyes rolled, he didn't expect to use the Eighteen-Star Flag to have this function. He said after a while: "The minister also said that the use of the eighteen-star flag is a split, and he must swear to oppose it." ”

"Split? Where is the split? Li Kongrong asked. The navy does not occupy half an inch of territory, so how can it be divided? ”

"It's not about dividing the country, it's about splitting the navy." Zhou Yingcong said hurriedly, "Splitting the navy is sabotaging the War of Resistance." ”

"The navy is long gone, even the establishment has been canceled, how can a navy that no longer exist be divided?" Li Kongrong said with a smile. "You want to say that Chairman Chang is sabotaging the War of Resistance, isn't he the one who canceled the navy?"

"......" Zhou Yingcong was completely speechless. I can't talk about you. I wondered, does that flag have to be used? ”

"By all means." Li Kongrong nodded seriously, "No, the navy's military spending is not enough, and if the military expenditure is not enough, you will not be able to fight Japan." ”

"Is it really that important to hit Japan?" Zhou Yingcong's words didn't go through his brain, and he knew that he was wrong after speaking. He said again: "If you do this, the domestic officers and soldiers will definitely not release them." ”

"If you don't let it go, you won't let it go. It's a big deal not to fight the Japanese and join the Royal Navy. "Li Kongrong's caliber is exactly the same as Lin Guogeng's, Zhou Yingcong really has no temper." You go tell the minister, it's really boring for the Navy and the Navy to fall out. Didn't he resign? Then ask him to stay at home for another three or four years, and after the war is over in three or four years, he will take up his post again after the government rebuilds the navy. If he's willing to stay, he's still the Secretary of the Navy, but please quit the Nationalist Party first."

"Quitting the Kuomintang?" Hearing Li Kongrong's two suggestions, Zhou Yingcong was surprised to quit the party.

"yes. The Navy does not intervene in partisan disputes, and all navies do not allow internal partisan members. When there is a constitution in the future, the navy will make a split according to personal wishes, and those who are willing to return to China will swear an oath to the constitution and swear allegiance to the permanent president; If you don't want to, you can go to the sea of stars and where you want to go. Li Kongrong indirectly informed Zhou Yingcong of his future plans, and then Zhou Yingcong left.

"Shuchun is gone?" On the way here, Lin Guogeng saw Zhou Yingcong leaving, so he asked.

"Yes, the acting minister lost his temper and was finally angry with me." Li Kongrong said.

"Hmm." Lin Guogeng knew Chen Shaokuan's opinion, but he didn't take it to heart, he said: "Chongqing is extremely opposed to our use of the Eighteen-Star Flag, and I think other things can be discussed, but this can't be discussed." ”

"That's what I guess." Li Kongrong had read the telegram sent by Lin Guogeng, and the Chongqing side put the blue sky and white sun flag and the portrait of Sun Yat-sen in the forefront, which shows the importance attached to these two things. is really a real Wenqing Party, and would rather starve to death than lose its temperament, but this group of Wenqing people with low eyes and low hands now only have integrity and nothing else. can let his family starve to death, and he is still smug, such a person really doesn't know how to comment.

"So what are we going to do? What about the pilot's return home? "Lin Guogeng looks at the problem very old-fashioned. Before the talks, he advised Li Kongrong not to talk about flags and other things, so as not to talk about stiffness when the time came, and all the planes returning to China after signing the agreement were painted with the blue sky and white military insignia, which could be regarded as following the customs of the villagers and giving the government a step down. Unexpectedly, the navy did not talk about Chongqing, but took the initiative to talk about it, and the first one was to ask the navy to use the blue sky and white sun flag to hang the portrait of Sun Yat-sen, and then it was impossible to talk about it.

"Isn't there a backup plan?" Li Kongrong's face sank, he envisioned a lot of plans, but this required the cooperation of Chongqing.

"But there is only one province in Yunnan, and if other local factions are contacted, Chongqing's opinion may be even greater." Lin Guogeng speculated. "There is also transportation, Yunnan is Longyun's territory, but other provinces have to pass through Chongqing for transshipment, and it is really a problem to overturn the supply of materials,"

"I'm also worried about supplies." Li Kongrong felt that the time for this peace talk was wrong. If the navy had used the iron-blooded eighteen-star flag very early, Chongqing's reaction was not expected to be so great.

"Oh, I've got you sent you the military uniform you're going to use the day after tomorrow." Since there is no solution with Chongqing, Lin Guogeng said another thing.

"Military uniforms?" Li Kongrong was stunned for a moment, and then smiled. This is something he told him before, but he didn't expect it to be done.

"Yes, look at it." Lin Guogeng got up as he spoke, and he brought Li Kongrong's full set of military uniforms this time.

Since the beginning of Beiyang, the navy's military uniforms have been changed again and again, and during the war, because they don't want to increase trouble, the only places where the navy's uniforms have really changed are hats and military insignia, and then the Marine Corps uniforms have been added, and the style tends to be Americanized. Although the style of the navy uniforms has not changed much, the quality of the clothing purchased by the United States is far better than that of China, so the military uniforms are very heroic and lovely.

"How much does it cost?" Li Kongrong asked.

"Report sir, all two hundred and thirty-five dollars and sixty-five cents, this is the bill." Lin Guogeng's adjutant handed over the bill very respectfully, and according to the 'fine tradition' of the navy, the officers' uniforms were paid by themselves.

"Hmm." Li Kongrong took the bill noncommittally, feeling that it was expensive and worth the money.

Looking at the eighteen stars on the cockade replacing the blue sky and white sun emblem, Lin Guogeng smiled and said: "Chongqing may be shaking the mountains now."

*

"I'm going to declare them rebels! The government wants to send a note to the US government to expel them from the country, and it will also seize the Xinzhong company...... "Huangshan Villa in Chongqing, the Standing Committee Chairman was furious, and the Foreign Minister Wang Chonghui in front of him was submissive, while Soong Meiling watched coldly. She didn't think that the navy had gone too far, after all, these people had no political ideas, and they didn't collude with the Communist Party, they were just patriotic overseas Chinese, and they went home after the war.

"Yes. Be. Yes, Chairman, I'll do it right away. Wang Chonghui bent over vigorously, he could feel Chang Kaishen's anger, even if the leader couldn't do these things, he didn't dare to confront him face to face, so he could only do things perfunctorily.

"If you can't do it, the Americans may not be willing to agree to us. I immediately wrote to President Roosevelt and personally asked him to expel this group of rebels who had no regard for party discipline and national law. Chang Kaishen said as he walked quickly to the study, leaving only him and Song Meiling in the living room.

"Ma'am." Song Meiling stood up and walked over, and Wang Chonghui hurriedly said hello.

"Minister Wang, do you think this matter can be handled?" Song Meiling sat down in the nearest seat.

"This ......" Wang Chonghui helped his glasses, and he really didn't know how to answer.

"Just tell the truth." Song Meiling said, "If you can't tell a lie, the chairman will be even more angry." ”

"This ......, ma'am, the country is fighting a war of resistance, and if it really does, I am afraid that the impression it will bring to the Americans will not be good." Wang Chonghui finally spoke. According to American tradition, the militia of each state has its own flag, and even each county has its own flag. If we note Washington because of this, it will certainly be difficult for the Americans to understand. ”