The sky in Hankou always seemed to be a little hazy than Shanghai, but the thought of being able to meet her husband soon, Xu Peipei didn't feel anything wrong. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The day before she was ready to go to Europe, Kong Lingyi suddenly said that the government had ordered Li Kongrong to return, and then she went to Wuhan under Kong Lingyi's arrangement so that the husband and wife could meet each other.

After the loss of Nanjing, Wuhan became the capital of China, and due to the departure of Japanese expatriates in the Japanese Concession, this area became the office of the central government. Although the concession was prosperous, the market in Hankou at this time was depressed, and the shadow of war was everywhere. At this time, Xu Peipei understood the reason why her husband did not allow her to leave the French Concession in Shanghai, but she thought of meeting her husband who had been separated for 16 months, and she didn't think that everything in front of her was unbearable.

"Pepe, Madame has come to see you." Xu Peipei was coaxing her daughter to sleep, Kong Lingyi came in, and she was accompanied by Chairman Jiang's wife Song Meiling. Getting up in surprise, Xu Peipei saw Song Meiling standing at the door, she was wearing a silk white cheongsam embroidered with big red flowers, looking at herself and smiling gracefully.

"Ah......" Xu Peipei seemed to be electrocuted, and her face suddenly turned red. Although I knew that Kong Lingyi's side was either rich or expensive, I didn't expect to see Song Meiling here - the woman that the girls who were talked about the most by the girls' school classmates when I was studying were her and Wang Renmei.

"Your name is Pepe, too." Song Meiling saw her cramped blush, and a trace of pride flashed in her eyes, but what was different from her eyes was that she smiled kindly, took a few steps in her high heels, and took Xu Peipei's hand affectionately when she came over and said: "It's really good-looking, it's much better than the one printed on the record and the Liangyou pictorial, it's really a beautiful song." ”

Xu Peipei became famous last year, and there are photos of her on bakelite film and Liangyou pictorial, although the newspaper has reported that she is married, but the people who like her are still undiminished. Suddenly seeing Song Meiling was cramped, but the students who came out of the girls' school were always more reserved and polite, Xu Peipei saluted and said: "Madame said that she was joking, Pepe just became famous by luck." Madame, please be seated. ”

"It's just a good song!" Kong Lingwei, who was dressed as a man, jumped out and grabbed Xu Peipei's other hand, and she declared: "Auntie, if I were a man, I would duel with that Li Hansheng, and I would snatch Peipei over anyway, and then hide Jiao in the golden house." ”

"Hehe..." Kong Lingyi and Song Meiling suddenly laughed, and within a day of Xu Peipei's arrival, Kong Lingwei circled around her. Song Meiling covered her mouth and said: "You, you, you're not too young, you can't settle down, how can you marry in the future?" ”

"The eldest sister hasn't married yet, when will it be my turn?" Kong Lingwei let go of Xu Peipei, and pulled Song Meiling's arm to be coquettish, Xu Peipei on the side was stunned, she didn't expect that Miss Kong Er, who was rumored to be domineering, actually had the side of a little daughter.

"Whoa! Who is going to marry. Kong Lingyi, who has been back to China for more than a year, is still arguing with her parents, and she is not happy when she mentions marriage.

"Alright." Song Meiling comforted this Kong Lingyi with her other hand, and she said, "I'm here to see the big singer, not to listen to the two of you." Pepe, are you still used to living here? ”

"I," Xu Peipei's face was no longer red, and she replied gently, "There is nothing that she is not used to." ”

"I listen to Pepe about your affairs," Song Meiling pulled Kong Lingyi ......, "Your nicknames are all called Pepe, it's really fateful." It's not easy for you to be alone in Shanghai, and Pastor Anderson told me that you are not safe in Shanghai. In the future, you will treat this place as your home, and if you need anything, you can tell this Pepe that if you want to release a record, you can go to Chongqing to record, and the conditions will not be much worse than Shanghai. If you want, you can also go to the Central Radio, during the Anti-Japanese War, the whole country needs good songs to inspire everyone......"

Song Meiling talked eloquently, taking Xu Peipei from Shanghai was Kong Lingyi's idea by chance, Kong Lingyi begged her for help, and heard that Xu Peipei was also a devout Christian, and promised to donate half of her income to the church, she felt that if Li Kongrong was really as shrewd and capable as Brother Yong said, it would be a good idea to take his wife and daughter to Hankou or Chongqing, which were safer in advance. In the doctrine of Christ, it is a crime to get pregnant before marriage, not to mention that she is not a wife, but those are all things before Xu Peipei's baptism, thinking of this, Song Meiling felt that maybe she should come to see this person.

Xu Peipei didn't understand Song Meiling's thoughts, she only felt that Song Meiling was beautiful and generous and amiable at this time, especially her dress was extremely decent, she suddenly wanted to wear a cheongsam, maybe Xianggong would be surprised to see her wearing a cheongsam again.

Thinking of her husband Xu Peipei, her heart is extremely sweet, but Li Kongrong's heart is bitter in Berlin. At his request, Cheng Tianfang finally did him a favor privately, and did not buy the nearest ticket for him to return to China, but he could fly to the Far East once every four days, and he still had to fly back to China after four days. It's hard to go back and come back, is there really no hope for submarines?

"Hansheng, don't worry. I can do it here in Berlin. In the naval dormitory, seeing Li Kongrong frowning, Lin Zhun was very confident that he could do everything in Germany.

Seeing him like this, Li Kongrong couldn't help but shake his head, Lin Zhun may have stronger sailing experience than him, but his proficiency in submarines is not as good as his, and his courage is poor. "Let's take it one step at a time. I've already telegraphed to Dean Kong, hoping that he will change his mind. ”

"Dean Kong?" Lin Zhun was inexplicable, he didn't know what Li Kongrong's return to China had to do with Dean Kong.

"Did Dean Kong ask you to return to China?" Lin Zhun asked.

"It should be, only he knows about the shipwreck." Now there is no need to keep it a secret as before, Li Kongrong mentioned the shipwreck: "There is a Spanish galleon sank in Cuban waters three hundred years ago, I told Dean Kong about this before, and now the navy suddenly has the money to rebuild, he must have thought that the money for the reconstruction of the navy came from the Spanish shipwreck, so ......"

"Really?!" Lin Zhun's mouth was open to hold eggs, he was too surprised.

"It's all been caught." Li Kongrong said, "The next step is to salvage an Arab shipwreck, which is filled with Tang Dynasty porcelain, Captain Fang said that the porcelain is valuable, and if it is placed in the sea, it may be fished away by others, so let's fish it up first." ”

"it! The money for the reconstruction of the Navy is raised like this? It was so shocking that Lin Zhun, who had always been gentle, actually burst into foul language. He looked at Li Kongrong's gaze even more strangely, why did Li Kongrong know everything?

"This is the first pot of gold." Li Kongrong smiled, "You can make more money with this money." By the day the aircraft carrier is launched, we will not be short of money. It's just that now ......, hey, submarines are an indispensable part of the reconstruction of the Navy, and without submarines there would be no cruise ships, and without cruise ships there would be no aircraft carriers. It is true that aircraft carriers can be built by themselves, but the price of building them by ourselves is too expensive and too expensive, and if we have cruise ships, we can at least 40% of the money. ”

"Report sir, your call." The officer on duty shouted at the door, but Li Kongrong was a little indifferent, and only got up to answer the phone after a while.

"Is it Colonel Lee?" On the other end of the phone was an unfamiliar voice, a man in his forties, whose voice was stereotypical and stiff.

"I am, may I ask ...... you are," Li Kongrong said indifferently.

"Oh, Mr. Colonel, hello." There was finally a fluctuation on the other end of the line, "I'm Colonel Paulus, General Guderian's aide-de-camp. The general has great admiration for your achievements in China and very much with the concept of armored tactics described by you in the American newspapers, and he wants to meet you at your right time, preferably for lunch......"

Guderian's name finally touched a nerve in Li Kongrong, he had thought that he might be able to meet Guderian in Germany, but he didn't expect it to be only now. "Oh......" Li Kongrong pondered for a while, and then said: "I'm going back to China soon, I want to ......"

"Please wait a minute." Before Li Kongrong could finish speaking, Colonel Paulus interrupted, and after a little noise, another voice came on the phone, "Hello, Mr. Colonel, I'm Guderian." I've been looking for you, but unfortunately you didn't come back to Germany. Thank God you're finally back, are you free today? I hope to visit you today. ”

Guderian's voice softened slightly, or rather with a sense of pleasure. It is also good to meet famous German generals before leaving Germany, and not long after Li Kongrong hung up the phone, an Opel car drove into the Chinese Navy cadet dormitory on Spandau Street. A colonel got out of the car first, then a lieutenant general, bald and vicious-looking, like a miserable Junker peasant, with only a constricted gaze in triangular eyes like a goshawk soaring through the sky in search of prey.

Li Kongrong politely waited outside the car and smiled, but he felt a little dry when his gaze swept away, he simply stopped smiling, stretched out his hand and said, "Hello, General Guderian." ”

Li Kongrong looked like a little white face, and when he became serious, Guderian smelled the breath of the same kind, and he squeezed out a smile and shook hands with Li Kongrong, "Colonel, it's an honor to meet you." ”

"Please sit inside, it's just that it's very shabby." Li Kongrong took up his attitude and began to practice the friendship of landlords. After the students served tea, he began politely: "I have read the general's masterpiece for a long time, protection, firepower, and maneuverability, completely to the point of all the elements of the tank. The armored tactics of the Chinese tank army were designed on the basis of this. ”

Guderian has always believed that tanks are the future of warfare, and for more than ten years he has not only been studying tank tactics in the German army, but also paying attention to the use of tanks in countries around the world, especially in Britain and France, as well as in Spain. In the previous months, Guderian was deeply shocked by the Battle of Lanfeng, thousands of miles away, but the conclusion he came to when he visited the military advisers who had returned from China was astonishing, and everyone said that the Chinese were lying, because it was impossible for the Chinese army to annihilate a Japanese division, let alone a division reinforced with heavy artillery brigades.

It was only after a letter from a military adviser still in China and a newspaper publication of captured Japanese field artillery and baggage that the generals acknowledged the incident. However, is it really because the Chinese have unique tank tactics? For the past month, Guderian has been thinking about this question. However, the Chinese kept the situation of the Panzer 88th Army extremely secretive, and it was impossible for him, who had just become the commander of the 16th Army, to go to China in person, but the American Times magazine asked him to find a shortcut - Colonel Li Kongrong, who organized the Chinese Armored Army, was in Berlin, Germany, and unexpectedly Colonel Li Kongrong went abroad, so Guderian had to wait patiently.

The soldiers do not talk nonsense among themselves, and Guderian listened to Li Kongrong mention the "Idea!" he had previously written. Tank" and Chinese armored tactics, he immediately asked: "Colonel, can you elaborate on how China does it?" ”

"This should be a military secret." Li Kongrong saw Guderian eagerly looking at him, and deliberately said this. "However, I believe that most of the Germans are allies of China, and it doesn't hurt to say it.

The general believes that the most important thing for a tank is protection, firepower, and mobility, while I believe that the various forces within the armored division need to be balanced, and that armored combat is a joint operation, not an isolated operation of a single branch. Therefore, tanks, artillery, and infantry, they must be used together in armored warfare, and their establishment must be suitable for this use, in general, in order to achieve this purpose, the optimal ratio of these three types of troops is 1:1:1, and they must be able to be combined arbitrarily.

For example, a tank company should be able to form an armored regiment with a self-propelled artillery company and a motorized infantry company, and a larger force would be a tank division, a self-propelled artillery division, and a motorized infantry division to form an armored corps. However, China's national strength is limited, and the quality of the officers in the troops is not high, so China can only fulfill contracts at the brigade level, which is why it is not the 88th Regiment and the 88th Brigade, but the 88th Division. ”

Guderian's book was about the tank itself, and what Li Kongrong is now talking about is the principle of the establishment of armored forces, and Guderian listened attentively, and he was indifferent when he was scalded with hot tea. After Li Kongrong finished speaking, he pondered: "Mr. Colonel, why do the other two divisions also have to be incorporated into the 88th Army?" Is it that the strength of an armored division is too weak? ”

"That's what it means." Li Kongrong nodded, "If the armored division is an indestructible spear, then the motorized infantry division is the scythe that reaps the enemy who has been smashed by the spear." In armor tactics as I understand it, one or the other is indispensable. China is so poor that it can only equip motorcyclers with a large number of bicycles. In fact, the most important thing in the armored corps has always been not tanks, not trucks.

The maneuver of the tank is only the maneuver of the tank alone, and the maneuver of the entire corps is the real maneuver. Of course, the air force is also extremely important, although the strength of the Chinese air force is very weak, but in the Lanfeng operation, especially in the short hours of the armored army's attack, we have air supremacy over the battlefield. The German Henschel 123 dive bombers were the best artillery of the Panzer Corps, and they suppressed and destroyed the Japanese artillery positions to minimize their damage to the attacking forces. (To be continued.) )