Chapter Seventy-Four: Appropriate

"Hansheng, Hansheng......" A familiar voice sounded in Li Kongrong's ears, and the person who called him seemed to be Xu Peipei, who was talking to him with her daughter, holding her daughter, who was a few months old, and in the bright sunshine, she was smiling like a flower. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Hansheng, Hansheng......" shouted his voice gradually changed, Xu Peipei's smiling face began to dissolve in the halo, and another woman slowly emerged. It was Mrs. Lee, who stood barefoot on a bloody ground, her hands pointing straight at him, her face as pale as death.

Li Kongrong was surprised when Major Li suddenly appeared next to Mrs. Li with a strange smile, and then the scene instantly shifted to the night of the Berlin car accident - after taking on Major Li's memory, Li Kongrong completely remembered the scene of the car accident - the dark night, the sparse street lamps made the road more gloomy, and the roar of the truck engine drowned out all the noise. Li Kongrong stood in the middle of the road, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't move his steps, and as the truck got closer and closer, he finally screamed 'ah'......

After shouting "Hansheng, Hansheng......", Li Kongrong felt that he was still in a dream, but the seat in the cabin and Fang Ying's shouting outside made him understand that he was not in Berlin but on the ship.

"What's going on?" Li Kongrong, who was sweating profusely, got up and opened the door, it was late at night, Fang Ying would never knock on the door in the middle of the night if he was not in a hurry.

"Something happened to the Ninghai!" Before Fang Yingren came in, he told the reason, and he immediately handed the telegram from the ministry to Li Kongrong, "It was sent from China, and the forwarding was delayed, and we have only received it now." ”

Li Kongrong grabbed the telegram and scanned it quickly, he shook his head and said, "This is the telegram from six hours ago?" ”

"Yes, the radio power is not enough, it can only be forwarded by cable telegraph." Fang Ying said. "This time Brother Yu may ....... Hansheng, can you find a way to save people? ”

"I don't know!" Li Kongrong stroked his hair vigorously, "The key is that we don't know how the Ninghai is doing now?!" There is a naval supply point in Holland Harbor, and Zhou Guangzu can really figure out a way. ”

"What about Tatsuda Maru?" Fang Ying understood that what Li Kongrong said was reasonable, and he was also in a hurry to go to the doctor in China. "If someone is caught by the Japanese, they won't be able to save it. Our aircraft carriers ......"

In Li Kongrong's plan, the Tatsuda Pill has an irreplaceable role. Because she was captured the earliest, the shipyard and the fleet had to rely on her to run in, and if the Tatsuda Maru was recaptured by the Japanese, it would not only affect the naval reconstruction plan, but also greatly damage the reputation of the navy. Li Kongrong did not like the people who "did not recognize the Japanese aggression committee" and did not like the Christian churches, but only the cosmopolitans and Christians in these organizations were willing to help him in his activities in the United States, so he had to restrain his preferences and pretend to be a democrat or a religious element.

This made him extremely uncomfortable, and in this discomfort, he gradually understood the influence of the so-called political war and public opinion on the war. He, and his future fleet, must consider the impact of his actions on overseas Chinese and the public opinion in the United States, because this involves the issuance of naval bonds in the future. The loss of the Ninghai is a failure, but the loss of the Tatsuda Maru is a disaster, what should I do?

"Can we drive Tatsuda Maru away in advance? Drive to the port of Alaska. Fang Ying asked.

"Nope." Li Kongrong shook his head, "The Dragon Tian Pill will be exposed when it arrives at the port of Alaska, and it will be too late in time, and it will take at least a month for us to send people over again." Did Brother Xiang Xin receive this telegram? ”

"It should have been received, the telegram was forwarded by the Consulate General in San Francisco." Fang Ying, who had been standing, finally sat down uneasily. He comforted himself: "Since the Japanese are attacking by aircraft, then it must be an aircraft carrier nearby, according to what you said, the aircraft carrier has an attack range of more than 200 nautical miles, maybe by the time the Japanese find them, the people in Holland Harbor have already rescued them." ”

"I hope so!" Li Kongrong also sat down, he couldn't figure out what the dream he had just had represented, was this a warning? He suddenly missed his woman and his daughter, who, according to the last letter he received in San Francisco, were living in the French Concession.

"Quick! Save people, save people quickly......" Fifty nautical miles off Holland Harbor, Colonel Zhou Guangzu, a naval staff officer, was standing on a fishing boat. Because of the delay in finding the ship, he rushed to the sea where the Ninghai sank at this time, and he trembled when he saw the corpses floating on the sea under the light. In fact, there is no need for him to say that the American crew hired at a high price is already using wooden poles to catch people, but the situation is frustrating, and the American captain said helplessly after confirming it: "Sir, we are late, they are already dead!" ”

"Impossible! No way! Zhou Guangzu also felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't accept this result. He cried out sharply, "How could they die?!" They were fighting with the Japanese a few hours ago, and they were still fighting with ...... a few hours ago."

"Sir," feeling that the Chinese were too excited, and the Americans were about to soothe him, Zhou Guangzu suddenly jumped into the sea, and he grabbed the body of a sailor and shook it vigorously, seeing that there was no response. He shouted again: "Youzhi! Gao Youzhi! The Rite of Prayer ...... Yao Fahua ......"

"Oh! My God. The further he sailed, the more corpses there were, and looking at the dense floating corpses on the sea, the captain couldn't help but draw a cross on his chest. He is also a navy, and it is because of this that he dares to follow Zhou Guangzu to the sea. At this time, the water temperature in the Bering Sea was at the highest level of the year, and the crew would never freeze to death for a few hours, and if they did not freeze to death, they were most likely killed by Japanese aircraft. The captain remembered the scene of the crew being shot by a Japanese plane after falling into the water, and he only felt chills all over his body.

"Here, here! The commander ...... "Second Lieutenant Chen Daying on another fishing boat shouted, he is a translator, and when he heard that he was rescued, all the people who could come out of Holland Harbor came out. On his side was Han Hengrui, a first-class caretaker, who escaped by hiding under the corpses of others. In a daze, he heard someone call the captain's name, and he immediately woke up.

"What's going on?" As soon as Han Hengrui finished taking a sip of water, Zhou Guangzu, who climbed onto the fishing boat, pulled his clothes and asked. "Are all the people dead?"

"I don't know, I don't know." Han Hengrui gasped, "The ship was blown up and sunk by a Japanese plane, the commander told us to abandon the ship, we floated on the sea, and the Japanese plane fired, and kept shooting, and kept shooting......" Thinking of the terrifying scene just now, Han Hengrui's tears suddenly fell, but he didn't make a sound, and let the tears flow out of his eyes. "Sir, Japanese planes are not people, they came twice, twice, they ...... They all ran out of bullets before leaving. ”

"The brutes!!" Zhou Guangzu scolded angrily and slammed the deck with his hands.

Chen Daying held back her grief and continued to ask, "What about Captain Gao?" Where is Captain Gao? ”

"Captain......, the captain and Captain Lin are together, I've seen them. But ......" Han Hengrui suddenly stood up, but he floated on the sea for several hours, stood up and fell softly, but fortunately, the Americans on the side held him up. "The captain is here, right here, I've seen them, I've seen them......"

"Sir, please help us, I want to find all the survivors." Calming down, Zhou Guangzu told the Americans that he needed to examine every body to determine if there were any survivors — that the Japanese navy would arrive in the area after dawn, and he could not let them find any survivors.

The afternoon sun shone obliquely on the west wall of the Listening Songlu House, and the light poured in through the cracks in the pale green curtains on the second floor, making the spotless office bright. Chang Kai Shen'an sat behind his desk, and in front of him stood Dai Li, deputy director of the Investigation and Statistics Bureau of the Military Commission. Dai Li, who was reporting to work, was extremely respectful, but the smile on his face could not be concealed in any way -- the Soviet Union and Japan were really pinching each other at Zhang Gufeng.

Dai Li was full of joy, but Chang Kaishen was still insufficient. He was reserved before he said: "Will the Soviet Union take revenge for this defeat?" How big will the war be? Do not forget that the Japanese army of hundreds of thousands is advancing towards Wuchang. ”

"The headmaster is very worried." Dai Li quickly retracted his smile and said: "Mr. Takano thinks that the Soviet Union's defeat will definitely expand the scale of the war, but Stalin is strategically retreating and tactically aggressive, because he knows that only toughness can save the Soviet Union from the risk of fighting on both sides." The big war between Su and Rizhen can only wait for ......"

Stalin was like the anchor of the Soviet Union, standing firm in all kinds of storms. Although his sluggishness brought heavy losses at the beginning of the Soviet-German war, more often than not, his prudence saved the fate of the Soviet Union. In Li Kongrong's impression, this is indeed an iron giant, and without him, there would never be that formidable red empire.

Li Kongrong's perception of Stalin was gradually accepted by Chang Kaishen, who acquiesced in the Japanese assassination of Stalin, considering that he was just a hand-in-hand, but the operation of the matter still rested with Dai Li. Seeing that Dai Li wanted to defile the leader with this dirty thing in front of him, Chang Kaishen's face immediately turned cold, but fortunately, Dai Li was also vigilant, and he only said three words and stopped talking.

"You have to do your best to inquire about the information of the Soviet-Japanese war," Chang Kaishen said with a straight face, "And Mr. Takano's side should also pay attention, does he have any information recently?" ”

"Yes, Headmaster!" Dai Li's snort, "Mr. Takano tells us to pay attention to Daya Bay in Guangzhou. ”

"Daya Bay?" Chang Kaishen didn't know what this place was.

"Mr. Takano said that according to his recollections, the General Staff Headquarters had a plan to take advantage of the fierce battle between our army and the Japanese army on the outskirts of Wuhan to raid Guangzhou, and the original landing place was Daya Bay, with about 70,000 people from three divisions." Dai Li explained. Mr. Takano also said: The general policy of the Japanese army is to cut off our trade routes with the outside world and make us lose the will to resist. He suggested that we immediately rush to transport a batch of military supplies before the Japanese army occupies Guangzhou, because with the current situation, we still have about four months to spare. ”

"Can't Guangzhou hold it?" Chang Kaishen was a little dissatisfied, and his posture was also straight, but without waiting for Dai Li's answer, his upright body softened. China is not Germany, although the Guangdong-Hanzhou railway has been built, but the monorail capacity is limited, and its own army cannot be flexibly mobilized between Wuhan and Guangzhou.

Waving his hand, Chang Kaishen said helplessly, "You go out." ”

"Yes, Headmaster." Dai Li was about to turn around, but he remembered that there was one more thing that he had not reported, and said: "Mr. Takano said that he has been short of money recently, and he wants us to send him fifty thousand pounds......

"Let's send it over, he may be in trouble." Chang Kaishen waved his hand again. Many transactions, especially the capture of the Japanese heavy artillery in the Battle of Lanfeng to Wuhan brought great reputation to the national government, and there was a round of applause at home and abroad, and he had already agreed to Takano Rokuro's request, and he was even glad that the Almighty Lord had given him a Takano Rokuro, otherwise the situation of the War of Resistance would have collapsed even more.

Dai Li bowed and then carefully withdrew, and then came in Chen Bui, who was dressed in a long robe. He came to the memorial meeting for the officers and men of the Ninghai. According to Japanese propaganda: Five days ago, the Ninghai was discovered in the Bering Sea by reconnaissance planes sent by the aircraft carrier Longxiang, and under the personal leadership of the flight commander of the Longxiang, Yasuna Shaoza, 12 Japanese planes immediately sank the Ninghai, which had been doing evil for a long time, and completely removed the last threat to the imperial sea.

This was Japanese propaganda, and according to the report of the Admiralty, the naval battle lasted more than three hours. There were three waves of planes attacking the Ninghai, the first attack of more than 20 planes was skillfully evaded by the Ninghai, and the second, that is, the attack by Kozono Yasuna himself, only seriously injured the Ninghai, and the third attack sank the Ninghai. What is outrageous is that after the Ninghai sank and more than 300 officers and men below the captain of the ship, Colonel Gao Xianshen, fell into the water, the Japanese planes fired wildly at the officers and men who fell into the water in disregard of public international law, with the result that only 36 of the officers and men of the ship survived.

As soon as the news broke, the whole country was shocked and the world was in an uproar. In line with the policy of gaining the sympathy of Britain and the United States, the national government was ready to organize a memorial service for the officers and men of the Ninghai on a large scale, but there were also inappropriate things in the large-scale operation. The Fujian navy has been rejecting the central government, Chen Shaokuan and others are only responsible to the national government, not to Chang Kaishen, and the Fujian navy is too difficult for people to trust -- during the Xinhai period, they threw themselves into the revolution, but in the second revolution they threw themselves into the Beiyang, and then swayed for more than ten years, and when they saw the strength of the Northern Expeditionary Army, they returned to join the revolution.

Although Minister of the Navy Chen Shaokuan said when asked about the KMT and the Communist Party that the Navy would not intervene in partisan disputes, would not approve of civil war, and would not fight his own people, he knew that his past people only regarded this as a joke. In the Battle of Longtan 16 years ago in the Republic of China, who led the fleet to shell Sun Chuanfang's troops on the Nanjing River? He Chen Shaokuan did not have the credit of this battle, how did he become the minister of the navy? A person who rose to power by fighting a civil war and killing his own people, but claims that he has always disapproved of civil war, which is as ridiculous as a tiger not eating meat.

The Fujian system is unreliable! This is the conclusion that Chang Kaishen has drawn from what they have done for more than 20 years. Moreover, now the navy is ready to move, saying that it is going to rebuild the navy, sending people to the United States to issue bonds, running aviation schools, and buying training planes, all of which are actions that they intend to reunify themselves outside the party-state.

For the sake of the country's long-term peace and stability, the Fujian-led naval reconstruction must be stopped, but once a memorial service is held on a large scale, it is difficult to prevent the naval reconstruction from the national government in a short period of time.

-- Chang Kaishen thought about this question after reading Chen Bui's copywriting, and it took him a while to come back to his senses, and he said, "Okay, let's do it." Besides," he stood up and picked up a piece of writing on the desk to the side, "Mr. Bray, do you think it's appropriate to write like this?" ”

"The spirit is immortal, and the spirit lasts forever." Chen Bui looked at the words and said, "Okay, Mr. Jiang's question is very appropriate." (To be continued.) )