Chapter 67: The Picture
"This is daytime embroidery, funny and petty!" At the anchorage of the 2nd Fleet of the Navy in Sandouping, Yichang, on the 140-ton gunboat Jiang Xi, Admiral Chen Shaokuan, commander-in-chief of the Navy Department, crumpled the telegram into a ball after patting the table. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 In order to curry favor with the officers and soldiers, Zeng Guosheng, a 'traitor' of the Navy, threw cigarettes and candies on the Yangtze River Fort on the plane, and under the scramble of the soldiers, a soldier of the Fengjie Fort fell to the bottom of the river and died.
"I'm not going to see him!" Looking at Zeng Yiding in front of him, Chen Shao puffed up his sleeves. The death of a soldier is not a big deal, the key is that as soon as the Ministry of Military Affairs promised Li Kongrong to form a new unit, the new navy, which had been almost covered by him, appeared in front of everyone's eyes. Chen Shaokuan, who has visited the United States in the United States, knows very well what the situation of the new navy is, and he knows even better what his own situation is. People eat beef and drink milk every day, and canned meat (luncheon meat) that can't be eaten is thrown away; As for themselves, colonel-level officers are better, but it is difficult for captain-level officers and non-commissioned officers to eat meat, let alone sailors, not only can they not eat meat, they can't even eat, and they can only drink porridge at home. The difference in treatment between the two sides is too great, so that he has been strengthening party and government education, studying the Three People's Principles and the speech of the chairman, and advocating the spirit of arduous struggle and resistance to the end. He Yingqin and others from the Ministry of Military Affairs were very supportive of this, but as soon as Li Kongrong showed off his new weapons, they 'betrayed' the navy.
Is radar useful? You can't resist the sun without radar? What a joke. Last year, Japanese planes bombed Chongqing so many times, and the whole country's army was still in full swing of a major counteroffensive. And what kind of missile, it actually costs 2,000 dollars a piece, such an expensive thing should be used by the Americans, the Chinese cannot afford to use it.
"Gongbei has already come, so let's say a few words." Zeng Yiding looked at Chen Shaokuan and was not angry, he was such a bull temper, and Lin Xianxi and Li Kongrong in New York offended him severely. "Hey! Brother Houfu, no matter how excessively they did, they still recognized themselves as the navy, and they didn't surrender to Japan as a puppet army. It's just a difference in political opinions, but it's not intentional on their part, if Ji Liang is still there, how can there be these things? ......, you should not think about anything else, but also think about all the officers and men of the Navy. ”
"Nothing to think about!" Chen Shaokuan changed his sitting position, facing the bulkhead. "I have made it very clear last time, I, Chen Shaokuan, have followed Mr. Zhongshan all my life, believed in the Three People's Principles all my life, and was born a member of the Guoli Party, and a ghost of the Guoli Party when I died! If you want to go to Li Hansheng, go ahead, but don't pull me, pull me and I'll definitely jump off the plane! ”
"Brother Houfu ......" Zeng Yiding didn't know history, and he would be surprised when he knew it. Nine years later, Chen Shaokuan's remark should have been said to Zhu Shaoliang, who persuaded him to go to Taiwan, and it probably was: 'If the Standing Chairman insists that I fly to Taiwan, I will definitely jump off the plane.' He sighed deeply, Chen Shaokuan's absolute made him unable to say anything anymore.
"Report to the commander, two planes have been spotted, heading towards our ship from the west." Major Jiang Hengxiang, the captain of the Jiang Xi, rushed in to report, and the sound of the helicopter's propellers could already be heard at this time.
"The plane, flying towards our ship?" Zeng Yiding was taken aback, and then thinking of the cigarettes and candies thrown from the plane mentioned in the previous message, he could probably guess that this was the plane that Zeng Guosheng was on. "Let's go out and have a look."
Sandouping is the location of the Three Gorges Dam in later generations, but at this time it was only a small town along the river, and only after the fall of Yichang did it become a material transfer station to replace Yichang. On the wide river, two unscrupulous planes flew slowly from the west, and their speed was no more than 80 knots, which was slower than the seaplanes of the navy earlier. After using the telescope, he realized that the propellers of the two planes were installed in the wrong place, not in the front but in the upper part, like bamboo dragonflies playing with children. The planes flew aimed at the Jiang Rhino, and when they flew near the river bank, they actually stopped in mid-air, and the altitude became lower and lower, and at this time, Zeng thought of the helicopter built by Li Kongrong in the United States, and it is said that the kind of plane can hover in the air.
Sandouping is the anchorage of the 2nd Fleet, and the remaining five gunboats of the fleet are all here except for the Yongsui in Chongqing, and nearly 1,000 officers and men of the four gunboats watched the helicopter slowly land, and when the helicopter stopped steadily, everyone found that the words "Navy, Zhi-15, Zhi-16" were written on both sides of the tail of the aircraft, which turned out to be the Navy's own plane.
"Salute!" Major General Yang Qingzhen was the first to get off the plane, and as soon as he showed his face, the guards on the shore shouted a salute. Zhou Yingcong came down next, and Zeng Guosheng came down again, his military uniform was obviously newer and more straight than the previous two. Several people were about to board the river rhino ship in a small boat, but the two helicopters were pulled out of the camouflage net by the maintenance personnel and quickly concealed with the help of the guards.
"Navy Captain Zeng Guosheng has seen Commander Zeng." After boarding the ship, Zeng Guosheng saluted Zeng Yiding, and his eyes swept over his epaulettes, unlike when he left, Zeng Yiding was already a lieutenant general.
"It's all your own people, don't be polite in Gongbei." Zeng Yiding also looked at Zeng Yiding's epaulettes, which were no longer blue sky and white sun, but iron-blooded eighteen stars, which looked like a black rudder, and so did the cockade. It seems that the Ministry of Military Affairs really asked Li Hansheng for help, but he didn't let him unload these and change them back to the blue sky and white day.
"Is the minister here?" Zeng Guosheng asked after finishing the salute, he came here in such a hurry to find Chen Shaokuan.
"The minister is still angry with the United States and doesn't want to see you now." Zeng Yiding left the others aside and took him to the chief's room alone, "If you have anything, tell me, as long as you can help." ”
"I'm ......" Zeng Guosheng stood up, he knew that Chen Shaokuan was on the boat, but Zeng Yiding pressed him down. Gongbei, since you are here today, there are some things that we will talk about, otherwise everyone in the clouds and fog will feel very uncomfortable. You tell me: what are Xiang Xin and Hansheng going to do? Do you want to be your own king? ”
"It's not!" Zeng Guosheng had to sit down and began to answer Zeng Yiding's questions head-on. "Brother Xiang Xin and Hansheng's meaning is very simple: the navy is the navy, not the party army of the Guoli Party, and they don't believe in the Three People's Principles."
"What do you believe if you don't believe in the Three People's Principles?" Zeng Yiding was surprised, he suddenly thought of communism, and said: "Believe in the Communist Party? ”
"I don't believe in anything." Zeng Guosheng calmed down, he suspected that Chen Shaokuan was next door, maybe he could hear what he said. Han Sheng said that he does not believe in the Three People's Principles and does not believe in communism, although the two seem to be incompatible, but if you look at the essence from the outside, the things inside are actually the same, they are all bureaucrats. The difference lies in the routine: the Kuomintang Party said: Bureaucrats who follow the Three People's Principles will make everyone's life better; The Communist Party says that bureaucrats who believe in communism will serve the people. In fact, the result is the same, the fart is still the fart, it is not the bureaucrats who serve them, it is they who tighten their belts to feed more and more bureaucrats. ”
"So?" Zeng Yiding is not interested in anything, and as he gets older, he has long disbelieved in this set of things. "So what does he want to do? Want to rebel? ”
"I don't want to rebel, I just want to resist Japan. Nor is it involved in domestic politics, and only wants to be gloriously isolated. Zeng Guosheng said, his voice getting louder and louder.
"And what about after that?" During the Anti-Japanese War, the navy couldn't do anything, and what Zeng Yiding wanted to know was after the war. "Honorably isolated after the war?"
"After the war, those who are domestic will return to China, and those who are overseas will return to overseas, and they will choose their own path." Zeng Guosheng said, "Hansheng should be interested in overseas, and he forbade the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to have the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in the navy because he was worried that they would interfere with the choice of officers and soldiers after the war, and he was even more worried that they would make a ship-seizing incident like they did in Guangzhou before, and he said that those people could do anything." ”
"What about the domestic ones, and what about the overseas ones?" Zeng Yiding nodded, he didn't think there was anything wrong with Li Hansheng's order to ban party affiliation in the army. The navy is the navy, not civilians, and it is a big taboo to engage in secret party groups within the country.
"Those who choose to be domestic will return to the Navy of the Republic of China, and those who choose overseas will be subject to the situation." Zeng Guosheng said. "But this part of the overseas will definitely not be involved in the country, and everyone will not violate the river water in the future."
"The sea does not interfere with the river water?" Zeng Yiding smiled, but only laughed, and then asked: "What about the warship, how to divide it?" ”
"Those that originally belonged to the Navy of the Republic of China, such as the Ninghai and Jiankang, as well as the merchant ships captured by the cruiser Ninghai, still belong to the Navy of the Republic of China, and the warships added to the back depend on the number of people." Speaking of this, Zeng Guosheng had to begin to explain the property system of the Volunteer Navy, he said: "According to the agreement, all the property of the Navy, such as combat ships, naval bases, naval territories, and subordinate companies of the Navy, all belong to the entire Navy, and everyone will be issued stocks according to their military rank, length of service, and military exploits. If there are many people who choose to return to China, so many that they can buy the entire aircraft carrier, then they can take the aircraft carrier with them and take back the stock. ”
"That's the separation." Zeng Yiding nodded again, "But what I don't understand is, why didn't Hansheng choose China?" After Brother Houfu, he will definitely be the next Minister of the Navy, he ......"
"Han Sheng said that after the war, it is better to defect to the Communist Party than to join the Communist Party, because according to the post-war situation, after four years, the Kuomintang will lose the entire mainland and retreat to Hainan or Taiwan......
"That's what he said?!" Zeng Yiding was really surprised this time, but it is not impossible to think about it, not to mention that Li Kongrong's judgment of current affairs is notoriously accurate, and what he said is going to happen nine times out of ten.
"Yes, only for the nine of us." Zeng Guosheng said, "He said that whether it is the Kuomintang or the Communist Party, there is no difference in essence. Rather than this, it is better to go overseas to build a world and be the owner of the island by yourself, and spread out for us Fujian people all over the world. ”
Zeng Yiding was silent, Li Kongrong's words were simple, but he sketched a picture of the 'sea of stars', which was something he longed for when he was young - to travel around the world on a warship, and when he saw a good place, he went up to erect a flag, and then recorded the latitude and longitude, and announced to the public that this was the first thing I discovered, and from now on it will only belong to me.
"Gongbei," Zeng Yiding spoke for a while, "Hansheng thinks well, but it's too late to do this kind of thing, not to mention the island, even the coral reef has been robbed by foreigners, how can there be any remaining place." ”
Brother Xiang Jin said the same thing, but after he finished speaking, Han Sheng laughed. He said, now is a world war, what is a world war? It is the activity of reshuffling the cards and grabbing places all over the world. Our camp is Anglo-American, as long as it is not Anglo-American, as long as it is German, Italian, Japanese, and their client states, we can grab it. ”
"Yes, you can rob it," Zeng Yiding agreed, "but can we hold it?" Just those aircraft carriers converted from cruise ships? ”
He said that as long as Britain and the United States and other allies recognized it during the war, and the defeated country signed the contract afterwards, there would be no legal problem. As long as the law is on our side, there is nothing that cannot be maintained. Zeng Guosheng said. He also said that aircraft carriers are the future of the Navy, and if it develops according to plan, after the war, except for the United States, even Britain will be inferior to us. ”
"Hehe......" The navy's warships were all sunk by Japanese planes, and Zeng Yiding did not doubt the importance of aircraft carriers, but he did not believe that the navy was stronger than Britain after the war. Okay, I won't stop Hansheng from what he wants to do in the future, let's talk about it now. What are you here for, and what can I do to help you? ”
"The navy has agreed with Chang Kaishen: As long as 50,000 tons of oil are dug up from the central Sichuan oil field, it will agree that all the officers and men of the Fujian navy will go abroad to replenish the aircraft carrier fleet." Zeng Guosheng once again said a shocking news.
"Really? That... And what about these warships? What about the battery? And what about the Minelayers? There is also ......" Zeng Yiding asked a series of questions, but there was one question he didn't ask, that is, how he and Chen Shaokuan, the top level of the navy, would arrange, you must know that the volunteer navy already has a headquarters.
"All of these will be handed over to the 3rd and 4th fleets." Zeng Guosheng said, he knew Zeng Yiding's worries, and added after speaking: "The two commands will be merged, and the specific affairs will be redistributed according to official ranks and functions, the minister is still the Minister of the Navy, and you are also the commander of the 2nd Fleet, although there is only one destroyer and a few seaplane aircraft carriers now, but in less than two years, the US Navy will send a batch of destroyers to us, and after the war, there will be captured Japanese battleships and cruisers, and these will be assigned to the 2nd Fleet at that time." ”
"Huh." Zeng Yiding smiled again, he did not doubt the authenticity of these words. In the past, the navy only had more than 50,000 tons of ships, but now one aircraft carrier is 20,000 tons. If Japan and the United States really go to war in the future, it would not be surprising that they sent destroyers to the navy, but as for the capture after the war, the Americans all participated in the war, how could the Japanese not be defeated?
"Gongbei, let's talk about the Sichuan oil field, where can you really dig out oil? How many years have we been digging over there, and we don't use foreign oil the same. Zeng Yiding suppressed the joy and began to talk about things, "If Chuanzhong can't dig it out, what should I do?" ”
"But Hansheng said that he must have dug it up, and the map was provided by him." Zeng Guosheng looked at him without doubt. "Now the Americans are already in Sichuan, and the rig will be ready to drill as soon as it arrives next month. Hansheng said that the place is full of oil, but most of the oil wells have low production and do not have exploitation value, so they must keep drilling wells, relying on the number of piles of production, and Chang Kaishen will release people when the output reaches 50,000 tons. ”