Li Kongrong had already guessed that he would be overwhelmed by everything the next day, but he didn't expect that someone would arrive before dawn - the Americans arranged several Filipino maids in the apartment, and when the Filipino maids got up, Major Xu Chengtong of the Manila Aviation School and Li Qingquan, chairman of the Philippine Overseas Chinese Aid and Resistance Committee, came. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info They also knew that they had come too early, so they had been waiting in the car, but Li Kongrong was uncomfortable sleeping because he was used to the rocking land on the boat, and he woke up immediately when he heard the sound of cars outside. Of course, he would not think that the bad guys who came up in the car, this is a US military base, and he can't enter without a pass.

"Salute!" Xu Chengtong saw Li Kongrong standing at the gate and looked over, and immediately got out of the car to salute. He was the head of the Manila Aviation School, and was previously a pilot of the Ninghai seaplane, an instructor of the Navy's Xiamen Aviation Department, and one of the survivors of the Ninghai.

"Take a break. A few of you, please come in and take a seat. Li Kongrong was wearing pajamas and did not return the gift. He had seen Xu Chengdi in San Francisco, but he didn't know who the old man he was with was.

"This is Chairman Li of the Philippine Anti-Enemy Committee......" Xu Chengtong spoke Hokkien and introduced Li Qingquan, who was about 50 years old and looked very gentlemanly in a suit. Before Xu Chengdi's introduction, he looked at Li Kongrong curiously, Si Swenwen's white-faced man, not like a general, but like a scholar.

"Hello Chairman Lee." Li Kongrong shook hands with Li Qingquan with a smile, "I've heard of you for a long time, and it's an honor to see you today." ”

"Where, where." Li Qingquan was obviously in a trance, he couldn't match the Li Kongrong in front of him with the Li Kongrong who killed the Japanese in his imagination, but the young man next to him stood up and saluted Li Kongrong, "Aviation Academy cadet Li Shiwei has seen Chief Li!" ”

"This is Chairman Li's son." Xu Chengtong introduced, "It's also my adjutant." ”

"Not bad! Take a break. Li Kongrong looked at Li Shiwei with a smile, then looked at Li Qingquan, shook hands again and said, "Thank you, Chairman Li." ”

"I'm not as good as Chief Li." Li Qingquan finally came back to his senses, he felt that Li Kongrong was more pleasing to the eye than any patriotic general, and he was also a native of Fujian and a fellow countryman.

"Without overseas Chinese, we would not be able to fight at all." Li Kongrong said sincerely while inviting the guests to sit down. "Just like an aviation school, it would not have been possible to set up so quickly without the support of Chairman Li."

"Chief Li is in love." Li Qingquan was quite moved to see Li Kongrong, which is why he came over so early. "We're still doing too little, too little. Commander Xu also said that the navy should not don't donate, and the bonds should not be sold, hey, you ......."

It was a policy not to donate money from overseas Chinese, which was originally intended not to occupy the resources of the national government, and at the same time to reduce the hostility of some national governments. Obviously, this latter goal has not been achieved, but the policy has been set, and it cannot be changed in a short period of time.

"Please also ask the old gentleman to call me Hansheng, they are all from their own family, and it is too foreign to call the chief or something." Li Kongrong himself changed his name, calling the old gentleman more cordial than the chairman. "The Navy can solve military spending on its own, and now it wants places and people. We are going to dig out the hearts and minds of the Japanese and fight to Tokyo, and the most we can do on land is to drive out the Japanese, and the sea can decide the outcome of the war. Japan has more than 3,000 naval air forces, and we need at least 3,000, and there are too few overseas Chinese in North America, and there is no place to run an aviation school in China, so we can only rely on overseas Chinese in the South Seas of the Philippines. ”

Li Kongrong explained the importance of the aviation school succinctly, only for Li Qingquan to nod frequently, and then he asked with concern: "Hansheng, can three thousand pilots defeat the Japanese?" ”

"Three thousand pilots can trap the Japanese on the island." Li Kongrong explained that he realized that he should not talk to Li Qingquan about such tactical issues. "If you want to land, you need at least 3,000 people, and only when you hit Tokyo can Japan surrender."

"I see." Li Qingquan looked at his son beside him, and didn't ask any more, but said: "There are a lot of people who apply for the aviation school now, it's just ......" He looked at Xu Chengtong again, "I can't publicize it to the outside world, there are too few people who know it." ”

The Philippines is clinging to Taiwan, and the authorities are extremely afraid of Japan's southward movement, so the aviation school in Manila is unknown. Xu Chengtong said: "There are a lot, there are three or four hundred thousand overseas Chinese in the Philippines, and now there are more than 600 students in the school. We are mainly worried that the Japanese will protest and then the authorities will interfere, and it will be difficult to recruit again. ”

"Japan must occupy the Philippines." Li Kongrong said. "Mr. Li, although Japan occupies a lot of parts of China, it has been fighting very hard, and the economy seems to be prosperous, but in fact, it has long been unsustainable. If you don't have money, you have to grab money, and in at least two years, they will go south and occupy the Philippines, so you must be prepared to evacuate. ”

Li Kongrong told history, and Xu Chengtong on the side echoed, "The chief has never missed the judgment of the international trend, so please Chairman Li must think deeply and prepare in advance." ”

"This is an American colony, and the Japanese are really going to call?" Li Qingquan was extremely surprised, his family business and overseas Chinese's family business were all in the Philippines, how could he leave? "Where are we going to go if we want to leave?"

"Yes, trust me." Li Kongrong said. "The Japanese will occupy not only the Philippines, but also the whole of the South Seas. There is no oil in Japan and at home, but there is oil in the South Seas, and the oil must be transported back through the Philippines, and if they do not occupy the Philippine shipping route, they will not be assured that they will be mortally threatened by the Americans, so if they want to survive - the Japanese have to import more than 5 million tons of oil every year, and without oil, not only can the economy not run and the war cannot continue, it must occupy the South Seas, and if it wants to keep its flank, it must occupy the Philippines. This is a tactical issue that Japan cannot afford to ignore.

The United States was prepared to abandon the Philippines from the beginning, as can be seen from the location of its naval base. If you want to stick to the Philippines to control the South China Sea, then the US naval base should be in Subic Bay, which is the most convenient place, as soon as you go to sea is the international shipping lane, which is already the bottom of Manila Bay, and the defense of the military port depends on Corregido Island at the mouth of the bay. ”

Li Kongrong only analyzed the facts, Li Qingquan can become the leader of overseas Chinese in the Philippines, naturally he is not an ordinary person, but although he agrees, there are still many questions: "What about Sing Dao?" Where is the British naval base, which has been in operation for hundreds of years, and where can Japan occupy? ”

"If I am not misjudged, France will surrender to Germany this summer, and the Japanese will occupy the colony of Annam in the fall, probably only in the north, not in the south." Li Kongrong did not regard Li Qingquan as an outsider and bluntly stated the future situation. "Annan used to be Thailand, and Thailand used to be Malaya. Although Singapore is a fortress, it does not have any fortifications in the north. Once the Japanese army landed in Malaya from Thailand, Singapore would not be able to defend it, because there were no fortifications in the north. The British Empire was already weak, and the defeat of France left him without the barrier of Annam, so Singapore could not hold it.

However, the Japanese occupied Nanyang for only three years, and after three years he was going to collapse, and the old gentleman could leave home for three years and come back after three years. As for where to go, I think we can go west. For example, India, or East Africa. If possible, you can also go to the United States, Honolulu, Australia or New Zealand. ”

"Hey, I can't go." Li Qingquan sighed helplessly, these are all places that are anti-Chinese, a big man like him may be able to go, but others will definitely not be able to go. "Hansheng, you say, there is really no place in this world that excludes Chinese?"

Li Qingquan's sentence 'There is no place in the world that does not exclude China' made Li Kongrong stand up suddenly, and he was stunned for a while before finally sitting down, and he made up his mind and said: "We will find a way to create a place, and we will take everyone with us when the time comes." ”

"Really?" Not to mention Li Qingquan, even Xu Chengdi was surprised, the place that should be occupied in the whole world has been occupied, and it is not as simple as sinking an aircraft carrier to take down a place.

"Absolutely." Li Kongrong said, "It is always possible to lay down a place to settle everyone before the Japanese go south. Old gentleman, although Mr. Sin Chew Tan Kah Kee invited me to Sin Chew to meet, but everything is complicated, and there is a high possibility that I will not be able to go, so please ask the old gentleman to convey these words on my behalf. Nanyang is by no means a peaceful place, and Japan is now taking the liberation of the Asian nations as its own responsibility, and they will definitely stand on the position of the local natives to wantonly kill and suppress the Chinese, and will even extort huge amounts of overseas Chinese to support the war, so we must be prepared in advance. Besides, it would be nice for one's own people to know about it, and it would be extremely inappropriate to publicize it so that the Japanese would know about it. ”

"I understand, I understand." Li Qingquan nodded, and his expression became extremely cautious.

"Let's have breakfast first." Li Kongrong looked at the clock on the wall, it was late in winter, and it was already more than seven o'clock.

"We're ...... Don't have breakfast. Xu Peipei also went downstairs at this time, holding the child.

"It's an insider." Li Kongrong got up and introduced, "Pepe, this is Mr. Li, the leader of overseas Chinese in the Philippines, this is his son-in-law Shijie, and this is Major Xu, the heroic pilot of the Ninghai. ”

"The old gentleman is so ......" Xu Peipei was just without makeup, but the men present were stunned when they got downstairs, Li Shijie and Xu Chengtong greeted her before coming back to their senses, and they found out that this Xu Xiaoman, the heir of the singing dragon, was surprised and could not be concealed.

"We ......" Xu Chengdi was incoherent, but Li Qingquan took out a piece of jade and handed it to the child, asking, "How old is the child?" ”

"It's three years old...... old man, old man, this can't be accepted." Xu Peipei stopped it, but Li Qingquan was full of words: "They are all surnamed Li, and the Shajing Li family and the Jinjiang Li family are their own families." The child's surname is also Li, can't she accept the elders' meeting gifts? ”

Li Qingquan stubbornly stuffed the jade in the child's hand, Xu Peipei could only look at her husband, Li Kongrong said, "Of course, the gifts of the elders should be accepted, but we as juniors should also honor the elders, you go, take down the body armor." ”

As soon as Li Kongrong said Xu Peipei, he went upstairs and took down a body armor in a while. Li Kongrong said: "Mr. Li often calls for anti-Japanese resistance outside, and the Japanese must hate it to the core. ”

"Okay." Li Qingquan was happy touching the body armor, and he was even happier when he saw Xu Peipei and Li Kongrong standing together, he felt that this was a talented and beautiful couple. As he was talking, someone came from outside, and he said: "Hansheng, since you have a guest, the old man will leave first, if there is anything to help, just say it......"

Xu Chengdi brought him to see Li Kongrong just to let the navy get more support in the Philippines, and there was no important business, and when people came, he immediately left. Li Kongrong couldn't help but stay with the guests, so he had to go with the flow, and there were really a lot of people he wanted to see these days.

"Brother Hansheng." Here came Zhang Yanxiang, one of the founders of Xinzhong Company. He had not met Li Kongrong before, and this was the first time the two had met.

"Please be seated." Li Kongrong got straight to the point, "What we want to talk about should be the new airport in Kunming, right?" ”

"Yes." Zhang Yanxiang graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering of Jiaotong University, and is currently in charge of the domestic Xinzhong Engineering Company, and the original location for the return of naval pilots to China is Kunming, Yunnan, but Kunming Wujiaba Airport has been occupied by the Central Air Force Military Academy, so the Navy wants to rebuild the airport.

"But there's one more thing." Zhang Yanxiang said, "I sent a telegram from New York yesterday saying that the research and development of the compass has been almost successful. ”

"Really?!" Li Kongrong felt incredulous, "Do many say that it will take a few years?" ”

"It's a telegram." Zhang Yanxiang didn't say much, and directly handed over the telegram. The above statement is short: the compass is nearing the end of development, the drift angular rate is below one degree per hour, and the manual trial production will be handed over to the jet laboratory this month to verify the accuracy.

The drift angular rate is one degree per hour, calculated at 650 kilometers per hour, and the error of the range of 250 kilometers is ......, Li Kongrong calculated for a while, and suddenly found that he had forgotten the circumferential formula, he patted his head embarrassedly and smiled, "Haha, I'm so happy, I actually forgot the circumferential formula, Brother Yanxiang......"

"The circumferential formula is twice the radius multiplied by pie, that is, multiplied by three points one four." Zhang Yanxiang didn't expect Li Kongrong to ask about the circumferential formula, which was a little incredible.

"Yes, yes." Li Kongrong was very embarrassed, but he still roughly calculated the circular calculation error of the range of 250 kilometers: 1.67 kilometers; The error of 500 kilometers is somewhat miserable -- a missile with a range of 500 kilometers needs to fly for 0.769 hours, and if it deviates by one degree in one hour, then it will deviate by 0.769 degrees. 500 kilometers is the radius, the circumference is 3,140 kilometers, one degree is 8.72 kilometers, and 0.789 degrees is ...... 6.7 km.

The accuracy of the 6.7 km circular calculation can only be aimed at urban targets; in addition, the shape of the missile with a range of 500 km remains unchanged, and the number of missiles with a range of several hundred kilograms of gasoline ammunition is reduced, and the killing range of one ton of high explosives is not large, and the power of reducing the number of several hundred kilograms is even smaller, and the error of 6.7 kilometers is 14 square kilometers, so it can only be used for intensive shooting.

"Brother Hansheng......" Li Kongrong was immersed in his calculations, and Zhang Yanxiang, who didn't know what the compass represented, waited for a while and had to wake him up.

"Oh." Li Kongrong woke up from his thoughts and said with a smile: "Don't be embarrassed, Brother Yanxiang, please talk about the preparations in Yunnan first." (To be continued.) )