Sure enough, under the onslaught of destroyers and anti-submarine aircraft, a submarine surfaced.

Looking at the "sunken" submarine, Yang Zhaohua looked at his watch, calculated the time, and shook his head.

"It's quite exquisite, and I admit defeat happily." He said to himself, "I hope the results of the attack aircraft group will be better." ”

"A large fleet of planes was spotted at six o'clock!"

On the bridge of the heavy cruiser "Baishan", Rear Admiral Qu Zhenguo of the Chinese Navy raised his binoculars and looked at the tiny black dots between the blue sky and white clouds in the distance, and couldn't help grinning.

"Let them find it." One officer said, "This is a problem. ”

"It doesn't matter, they don't have many planes, let's just hold on." Qu Zhenguo said without changing his face, "Let's hold up here for a while, and the attack formation will be one point closer to them." ”

"That's right! We can't fall into the prestige of our 'Big Ship and Giant Artillery Party'! Someone on the bridge shouted.

Qu Zhenguo gave the battle order, and soon, cruisers and destroyers launched air defense battle formations on the sea.

In an instant, several "Qingluan" attack planes with red, yellow, and blue circular patterns painted on their tails whizzed down from the sky, and when they saw the thick torpedo under the belly of the plane, a trace of sweat oozed from Qu Zhenguo's forehead.

At about the same time, attack planes that swooped down from high altitudes also dropped mock bombs on the "White Mountain".

"This kind of play is really dead." Looking at the torpedoes scurrying all over the sea and the bombs that were almost thrown on the deck of the "White Mountain", Qu Zhenguo smiled bitterly.

However, thinking of the attack fleet he had already sent out, he had a faint sense of pride in his heart.

A few minutes later, the aircraft carrier "Yinglong" received a battle report.

"Confirm the sinking of two enemy 'battleships'!" Cruiser' one! The communications officer shouted excitedly, and there was a burst of applause on the bridge.

After listening to the battle report, Yang Zhaohua did not feel as happy as his colleagues, but frowned.

"Two 'battleships'...... Where are the others? ”

Yang Zhaohua subconsciously looked at his watch again, as if he remembered something, and his brows furrowed more and more.

"They might send a battlefleet specifically to attack us." Yang Zhaohua said to Wen Anliang.

"Yes." Wen Anliang nodded, "Let the reconnaissance plane pay attention to the surrounding situation." ”

"Discovery Fleet...... Confirmed to be our fighter plane, the first attack wave is back! ”

With the loud report of an observer on the aviation bridge, a sharp whistle sounded, and the big horn on the bridge also roared: "All deck crews are in position, ready to recover the first attack wave!" ”

Rear Admiral Wen Anliang, the commander of the fleet, who had finished issuing the order, was about to walk to the landing command room at the rear of the aviation bridge to personally observe the landing operation of the first attack wave, but was stopped by Yang Zhaohua.

"What's wrong?" Wen Anliang asked.

"If they arrive now, we're in a very dangerous situation." Yang Zhaohua said.

"Could it be such a coincidence?" Wen Anliang subconsciously muttered, he looked out through the large porthole of the aviation bridge, and the visibility was very good at this time, and the situation on the sea could be seen very clearly.

At this moment, a communications officer suddenly shouted: "The reconnaissance plane has discovered the enemy ship!" Approaching our fleet at a rapid pace! ”

Wen Anliang was taken aback, he turned his head to look at Yang Zhaohua, and smiled bitterly: "I really let you say it." ”

"Now the attack aircraft can no longer take off." Yang Zhaohua looked at his watch again and said, "If they move quickly, when we finish recovering the plane, we can enter the range of their large-caliber naval guns." According to the exercise setting, the opponent is a battleship with 406 mm main guns, and once we are within range of their main guns, it will be difficult to run. ”

"So I had to flee without recovering the plane first." Wen Anliang sighed, "In this exercise, even if we win, we still let them put it on the table at the end of autumn." ”

"But if we have battleship escorts, there's no need to be afraid." Mr. Yang did not seem to care about the outcome of the exercise, instead focusing on how to solve the problem.

"Yes, if there are battleships or heavy cruisers to escort us, not only do we not have to fear a close attack from the battleships, but we can even launch a counterattack." Wen Anliang understood what Yang Zhaohua meant, and nodded.

The exercise ended, and soon the two fleets participating in the exercise met together and began to return home. After recording all his experiences, Yang Zhaohua left the bridge.

On the first floor below the bridge is the pilot's standby room, and as he passed by, Yang Zhaohua heard the recorder inside talking to the pilots.

"This time, everyone has worked hard!"

"The captain just explained, there will be a review meeting in the evening, everyone can rest for a while, and dinner will be held as usual at five o'clock."

"There is a letter here, Lao Wang, it belongs to your family, read it to the brothers!"

"Won't you take it apart and read it?"

"How dare I if you don't speak? Maybe it's Sister Lin in the house, doesn't it matter if you read it out loud? ”

"Your sister Lin - love it or not, whatever you want."

"Okay, then I'll read: Wu'er, see that the letter is good—it seems to have been written by my aunt, hehe."

"Everything is fine at home, my parents are healthy, so I don't have to worry about it. When you go out to sea, you need to be cautious in everything...... It seems that I wrote something similar last time, and my uncle and aunt are very worried about you......"

"How old are they to be children in front of their parents."

Yang Zhaohua thought of his father and mother, and although the letter was written in some very ordinary content, he still stopped and listened with interest.

After a while, Nian Xin's voice became a little hesitant and uneasy: "Lao Wang...... The letter said that your company's ...... Bankrupt. ”

"What?! ......"The waiting room, which had been talking and laughing, gradually quieted down.

“…… Due to poor management, the company has lost money since last year, and some of the investments have been lost...... Since last month, the company has been unable to make ends meet, forced to stop production, and has previously declared bankruptcy and is waiting for an investigation - how can this be? ”

"I've heard that there have been a lot of bankruptcies since last year, and it's like the number of bankruptcies in the last year is equivalent to the total number of companies in the past 10 years. I don't know much either, it's just that the recent business is not good, and it's not just your family's problems......" someone tried to comfort.

"Don't comfort me, I'm fine, go bankrupt, go bankrupt, it's a big deal to stop doing business in this life, I'll raise them."

Hearing this, Yang Zhaohua seemed to remember something, and for some reason, his father's familiar face suddenly appeared in front of him.

Yanjing, Jiuguo Hotel.

In a small but very luxurious private room, several people were playing cards and chatting.

"Twenty years of truce in Europe has come to an end. I am afraid that it will not be long before the dark clouds of war will drift to the east. ”

"Yes! Italy's occupation of Abyssinia and Germany's annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia bode did not bode well. ”

"It's not that serious, is it? Germany's ambitions would be hampered by Britain and France, and Italy would not do anything after the humiliation of its defeat in Africa. ”

"Not necessarily. Germany and Italy are not the only ones who want to break the world. ”

"Yes, and the Soviet Union and the Ben."

"Say? I doubt that after our naval parade is over, they will still have the courage to shout at us. ”

"I have always had great ambitions, don't think that a naval parade can scare them off."

"Germany and Italy have made a move, and the Soviet Union and Ben will not be idle, I heard that the Soviet Union is preparing to make a move against Finland."

"Oh? How do you know? ”

Of course he knows that business with the Soviet Union should be very good these days, right? Ha ha! ”

"It's okay, it's not too easy to do. Many of the old customers are gone. ”

"What's going on?"

"Killed by Stalin! Ha ha! ”

"Stalin was such a terrible man."

"Is this the superior surname of the so-called communivist state?"

"Communitarianism in history only exists among primitive people, haha!"

"Russia has unfortunately become a testing ground for their crazy theories, and I don't want China to be the next martyr."

"With our Treasurer, this terrible thing wouldn't have happened, haha!"

"By the way, he should have told you about the transition of the country's economy to a wartime system, right?"

"Oh? I really don't know. ”

"Told me. On that day, a financial work conference was held in Jurentang, and he briefed us on the situation and made it clear. ”

"That means we'll have a meeting in a few days."

"The wartime system is nothing new to us, isn't it?"

"Listen to what he said, this time the situation is different, and we may go to war with the Soviets at the same time."

"That said, it's another world war."

"It's almost there, it's reached a critical point, and no one can stop it......" someone suddenly sighed.

"The tipping point? What does this say? Someone asked uneasily.

"There is no doubt that the four countries of Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union want to break the system of the old world, re-divide the world, and lay the foundation of their thousand-year-old empires, but if they are just dancing solo, they will not be able to start a war......

"Yes, the most serious problem in the world today is that the economy has fallen into a sustained downturn, corporate profits have generally fallen, investment has decreased, unemployment has risen accordingly, and although the political axes of various countries have adopted a series of measures to get out of difficulties, they have not been effective, the workers' movements have risen one after another, and the society is in turmoil...... The times are unfavorable, and people's minds have changed. ”

"The so-called 'cyclical economic crisis of capitalism'?" Someone laughed.

"Yes, that's the tipping point."

"When a country's production expands to a certain extent, the domestic market is temporarily saturated, but it is limited by the status quo of discriminatory trade barriers, it is impossible to open up foreign markets, and it is impossible to achieve predetermined profits by continuing to invest, and even existing investments are facing the possibility of losing money. We in China now have a bit of this sign, the prices of real estate, precious metals, jewelry, and antiques have skyrocketed recently...... I see that my hands are itchy, and I want to fry a few strokes to play. ”

"In such a situation, according to those literati and scholars, the political axe needs to wage war to divert the predicament of the country, is that what it means?"

"It's not just a political axe! Isn't it? ”

Hearing this, several people laughed tacitly.

"Let's put it this way, the military is eager to conquer the Quartet and establish meritorious deeds; Politicians hope to use war to divert social contradictions and fundamentally revitalize the economy; Those of us hope to obtain cheaper raw materials and open up a wider market through war; Ordinary citizens look forward to changing their fate, such as getting rich, acquiring land, and so on. After that, there are various currents of thought that have gradually penetrated into all strata through education and the media for more than 20 years, such as the theory of evolution, militarism, apolitical axeism, fascism, and so on. From soldiers to students, from workers to peasants, they were influenced by these ideas year after year, attending classes, reading newspapers, listening to radio, watching movies, parades of the Boy Scouts, speeches by veterans of the Township Military Association, election propaganda of right-wing political parties, and arguments between classmates and friends...... Living in such an atmosphere, it is natural for the majority of the people to yearn for war in the name of justice. ”

"There don't seem to be a lot of anti-war elements, some waste, they only sing high-pitched songs all day long, what is the value of harmony, benevolence is teaching, belligerence will perish, I don't understand how so many people sing praises to them. By the way, recently the radicals in the Liberal Mingzhu Party have also jumped out and openly advocated violent revolution and overthrown the current political axe. ”

"As far as I know, the Liberal Democratic Party has expelled those radicals who caused trouble, and the Ministry of the Interior has issued harsh remarks about the use of violent means to severely suppress all political activities."

"These bastards always advocate some supreme justice, look like they are compassionate and compassionate, traitors and patriots at every turn, and the hats of the lackeys of the white colonizers are buttoned indiscriminately, but there are still many young people who are willing to listen to them, I really don't understand. In the long run, I am afraid that our China will also change color, either red or brown. ”

"Regardless of them, there are still people who believe in the supreme justice."

"I also believe that China should be the real liberator, and not become the new enslaver like the Soviet Union, and I am convinced of this. As for whether China will develop towards fascism, look at the vibrant opposition parties, look at the media that have not been swayed by the political axe, and look at the people who can freely express any political views on various platforms...... I think the fascists are still a long way from us. ”

"Good people......

"That's the pillar they survived," someone laughed, "and the pillar we survived was the opposite." ”

"It's better not to let your daughter hear this! Hehe. ”

Several people laughed again.

At the end of the game, the waiter brought exquisite refreshments and fruits, and several people continued the topic just now, chatting.

"You know what? According to the reliable information I have received, I am building a super battleship of the first class that has never been seen before, which seems to be larger and more powerful than the 'Sengoku' class battleship displayed at our naval parade this time. ”

"Impossible, right? Do you know how much the 'Sengoku' class battleships cost? The maintenance of the current scale of the Navy has already overburdened the finances of the Masaki of the Saymoto Axe, and the construction of ships larger than the 'Sengoku' class? Do they want to starve to death? ”

'yes!' The Sengoku class was originally scheduled to build four, but in the end only one was built, and the main reason for this was the problem of money, I don't believe that I could come up with so much money to build a bigger super battleship. ”

"That's not necessarily, I said that I was able to fight the Sino-Japanese War with all the belly of the emperor and all the people back then, and today I can't figure out that I will use all my pockets to build a super battleship."

"Yes, not to mention that the construction of such a big ship is not the business of one company and shipyard, but involves many aspects, and many people will make a fortune because of it, so it is still possible to build it."

"Haha! Oh, yes! I heard that your Jiangsu and Zhejiang consortium has made a lot of money in this 'Warring States' level business. ”

"If that's the case, I'm afraid we in China will have to build similar ships to fight against it, right?"

"You're trying to make money from this, right? Ha ha! ”

"Don't you want to?"

The room was filled with laughter again, and just then, a man in a black suit walked in briskly and handed a note to a man who was sipping on a cigar.

The cigar smoker took the note and looked at it, his eyebrows furrowed slightly.

"Good news, bad news, which one do you want to hear first?"

"I'm used to listening first, hehe."

"Germany has attacked Poland."

"What kind of good news is this?"

"What he means is that we have more opportunities to do business with the Germans this time."

"Have we had less dealings with the Germans over the years?"

"While we are now, we can still make more money, and if we China join the war, we will not be able to do business with the Germans."

"Okay, I know, you dare to do any business in order to get rich."

"Everybody to each other, huh."

"What's the bad news?"

"The Soviet Union and Germany formally signed a treaty of alliance."

"Hehe, the good news is not good, but the bad news must be bad, the Germans are really bold!"

"What's the matter, between countries, interests always come first, the ideology of the Soviet Union and Germany is completely incompatible, but they can form allies, which in itself shows that the so-called doctrine is all nonsense to fool people."

"Germany and Italy already have an alliance, so in fact, it is actually a Soviet, German-Italian Triple Alliance."

"If the Soviet Union and Germany form an alliance, they will go all out against our China. In this way, we in China are facing both the Benese and the Soviet Union at the same time, and I am afraid that it will be dangerous. ”

"It doesn't matter, the Americans and the British will definitely be on our side."

(To be continued)