On the last day of October, seven ocean-going freighters sailing out of the Strait of Malacca gradually gathered together to form a convoy and sailed northward, and after arriving at the sea area 20 nautical miles outside Changhua Port in the western part of Hainan Island, seven large freighters dropped the flags of the United States, the Netherlands, and Panama, four of them, escorted by two offshore fast gunboats, turned around and headed eastward and sailed into Changhua Port, which was under construction on a large scale, and the remaining three freighters, escorted by fast gunboats, continued to sail north to Dunmen Port, a secret military port in the direction of Lingao, where the first phase of the project had been completed.

These seven ocean-going freighters belong to the US West Coast Ocean Shipping Company controlled by Xiao Zhen and the Dutch Hensley Ocean Shipping Company controlled by the German side behind the scenes, and the Dutch "Fryer" freighter that sailed into Changhua Port is the most important; on this advanced 25,000-ton giant ship, it is equipped with two new artillery production lines, two artillery production lines, two shell production lines, and two sets of steel smelting equipment with an annual output of 800,000 tons of steel dismantled from Belgium that were secretly sold to Xiao Yimin Group by the German Rheinland Company and the Krupp Company.

The remaining three freighters entering Changhua Port, all with a displacement of between 8,000 tons and 12,000 tons, were loaded with more than 1,500 pieces of machinery and equipment purchased from the United States, 200 M142 trucks specially modified by Dodge Motors for China and many accessories, 5,000 tons of flour, and 4,500 tons of high-carbon steel and seamless steel pipes.

At one o'clock in the morning of the next day, under the guidance of offshore gunboats, three ocean-going freighters smoothly crossed the reef-lined bay and landed at the wharf outside the Dunmen Military Port with a water depth of eight meters.

Hundreds of sailors who sailed for 28 days fell asleep, and the sea waves were light under the bright moonlight, but there was tension around the inner harbor wharf of Dunmen Military Port, and not only were there many sentry posts and blockades, but there were also more than 10 doctors who had been transferred from various field hospitals of the Sichuan army, including Knight and Heinkel, the German deputy envoy to China, and Heinkel, the young military attaché.

At 2:10 a.m., waves with a radius of more than 200 meters suddenly surged on the calm sea, and a submarine with a length of more than 40 meters slowly surfaced.

A few minutes later, several figures appeared on the submarine tower, observed for a while, climbed off the tower and walked up to the deck, boarded the slowly approaching small traffic boat, and soon came to the dock to meet the people who had been waiting for a long time.

"Sharpler, my dear brother!" Knight, the German deputy envoy to China, ran up excitedly, hugged his former colleague Sharpler, heard Sharper's low moan, immediately let go, looked up and down, and held Sharper's right hand: "What's the matter?" What's going on? ”

Sharpler smiled lightly: "I was injured by the American artillery in southern Belgium, but I have fully recovered, except that I still can't write, there is no other inconvenience, and I am now very good at writing with my left hand." ”

Knight shook his head sadly: "When I received the news of the defeat of the Ninety-eighth Infantry Division, I couldn't sleep for several nights in a row!" ”

Sharpler laughed, shook hands with Heinkel tightly and greeted him, and suddenly found a familiar face and a familiar smile standing behind Knight, and immediately stepped forward, hugged his old friend, and greeted him cordially in unfamiliar Chinese: "My brother, I really didn't expect you to greet me, the general of the defeated army, how have you been doing for so many years?" Chengdu must have changed a lot, right? ”

Ma Gang, director of the military intelligence bureau, hugged him tightly, slowly let go, carefully looked at his old friend who had lost weight with a scumbag in his beard, shook his head sadly, and replied in a low voice: "We are all good, we miss you very much, the commander often thinks of you and is very worried." ”

Sharpler was very moved in his heart, but a happy smile appeared on his face, and he pulled Ma Gang to the dock: "Look, how beautiful, this is the 'Brave' that was sunk by the British [***] ship all over the world three months ago, this submarine that embodies the most advanced science and technology of the great Germany is 41 meters long, with an underwater displacement of 320 tons, loaded with two state-of-the-art diesel engines, four torpedo tubes, a surface speed of 12 knots, an underwater speed of 8 knots, a cruising capacity of 1,500 kilometers, and a comprehensive level leading the world!" ”

"Sharpler, we are very grateful to you, to the generosity of the German [***] team, to the thousands of German people, we will always remember this feeling, and we will give your people and army as much as possible in the next series of cooperation." Ma Gang sincerely expressed his gratitude to Sharpler and Knight, and made another commitment on behalf of Xiao Yimin.

Knight nodded with satisfaction: "We are also very grateful for everything you have done for Germany, if you hadn't persuaded the United States and Britain to ship tens of thousands of tons of grain to the German people from the United States and Southeast Asia every month, I don't know how many innocent German people would have died of hunger, I don't know how many families who have lost their husbands and sons have been destroyed in the war, and the German political axe and people are grateful to you!"

"I am convinced that no matter how great the disaster in Germany is, the relations between our two countries will be further developed, and when the war is completely stopped, more German technicians and experienced veterans will come to this great country and work side by side with the Chinese people!"

Rear Admiral Sharpler, who had been away from China for many years and had been recuperating in a field hospital for nearly half a year after the defeat of the war, did not know much about the current situation in China, and he was urgently summoned by the German General Staff and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from his hospital bed to serve as the person in charge of a series of secret cooperation between the two [***] teams.

So far, Sharpler, who is in charge of the implementation of the program, has not fully understood the content of the program, only that this huge military cooperation program was officially launched from the day of the delivery of the "Brave" and two sets of submarine construction equipment.

There were a few clangs of metal from the west, and Sharple was shocked: at the foot of the abrupt hill to the east of the pier, a water gate about 15 meters long and wide appeared, and the lights inside were bright, and the water was sparkling, apparently the submarine base on the side of the mountain had been hollowed out with great difficulty.

Ma Gang pointed to the water gate in the distance: "Forty-five meters wide, 120 meters long, 20 meters high, and 12 meters deep, it took eight thousand engineers selected from among the 300,000 officers and men of our army to complete this huge project, which cost 3,000 tons of explosives, nearly 65,000 tons of high-quality steel and cement, and sacrificed more than 130 outstanding officers and men. ”

"My God...... Great Chinese! Great mid-[***] team ......" exclaimed Sharpler and Knight and Heinker.

Ma Gang said with a serious expression: "Let's let the submarine in first, I'm afraid the officers and soldiers on the submarine can't wait." ”

"Good!"

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On the morning of November 1, camp in Nanjing.

After Xiao Yimin read the secret telegram sent by Ma Gang, he was so excited that he raised his hands and roared, Zhang Sike and Wu San, who had just returned from graduating from the senior staff major of the Sichuan Military Academy, were taken aback.

After Xiao Yimin walked around, he returned to the stunned Zhang Sike and Wu San, and smiled excitedly at the two henchmen: "The prerequisites for Sino-German military cooperation have been completed, and the Blu-ray Project has been officially launched!" ”

Zhang Sike and Wu San were pleasantly surprised, and after roaring a few times, they still clenched their fists and waved, at this moment, the two finally understood why the commander was so out of shape.

"Si Ke, from today onwards, you will be in charge of the Sichuan part of the 'Blue Light Project', hand over the work at hand to Tian Hanmin, and then rush to Shanghai to welcome the students studying in Germany and Chief Zeng Chaoran who will arrive the day after tomorrow, and accompany them to send the ashes of more than 20 brothers who died bravely back to Chengdu, and then stay at the Chengdu headquarters to work, and the plan will be handed over to you within three days." Xiao Yimin advised.

Zhang Sike was excited: "Obey!" Thanks to the commander for his trust in Siko, Sike will go all out and never disappoint the commander's high expectations! ”

Xiao Yimin stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder: "Si Ke, what you are shouldering is not only my trust, but also the trust of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, everything you have done will even affect the future of the entire country and nation!" ”

Zhang Sike took a heavy breath: "Understood! Commander, where should my subordinates start? ”

Xiao Yimin smiled: "Don't worry, there will be detailed implementation steps in the plan, but I will first reveal the following points to you: First, all the equipment of Huaxi Industry under my name, that is, the weapons assembly factory in the northwest suburbs of Chengdu, will be handed over to the Sichuan Arsenal in Phoenix Mountain to expand the scale and output." From now on, several arsenals, including Ya'an, will no longer produce rifles and water-cooled heavy machine guns, and the vacated Huaxi Industrial Plant and the 5,000 acres of land in the western suburbs that were requisitioned half a year ago will become our aircraft production base.

"Second, at present, there are 17 large and small iron and steel plants and other metal smelters in the whole territory of Sichuan, but only the steel smelting workshop of the Ya'an Arsenal has advanced forging technology, and after the arrival of the 5,000-ton hydraulic press imported by the Yucheng Iron and Steel Company from the United States, the artillery production line of the Ya'an factory will be transferred to the Yucheng Jialing Industrial Group, and the military group stationed in the Jialing Group Company must be well led, and it is necessary to ensure the smooth development of the production of four series of artillery of two calibers of 75 and 120.

"Third, the logistics department and the political department of the Chengdu headquarters will closely cooperate with your work, but you will be solely responsible for the safety and security of the aircraft production base and research base, and you have the right to select 5,000 outstanding officers and men from all departments of the army and the Sichuan Military Academy to form an army aviation garrison unit, and work with the Sichuan Military Academy to recruit and train aviation majors.

"Fourth, within half a year, the residential area for Chinese and foreign technical and engineering personnel north of Qingyang Palace and south of the Sichuan Military Academy must be completed and put into use, especially the 120 small villas, you must personally see and manage them, and you must make the engineering and technical experts from Germany and the United States feel at home."

Zhang Sike put away his notebook, puffed up his chest, and replied loudly: "Understood!" The subordinates will never fail to live up to the expectations of the commander! ”

Wu San was so envious, as soon as Zhang Sike left, he stepped forward to entangle Xiao Yimin: "Little brother, what about me?" You should have assigned me some tasks! ”

Xiao Yimin smiled: "Then you can go back to Sichuan, how about serving as the commander of the Chengdu garrison?" ”

"This ...... Little brother, can you let me go to Lingao Base? I love warships! Wu San's face was full of pleading.

Xiao Yimin said: "You, you don't have that level!" Such...... Just stay in Nanjing and accompany me, tomorrow you will go to hand over to Wei Changfeng and serve as the commander of the Nanjing garrison! ”

"Then what is the madman Wei going to do?" Wu San asked reluctantly.

"Wei Changfeng went to serve as the commander of the Lingao Military Base, promoted to major general, and concurrently served as the chief of staff of the special forces, he has this level, after four years of hard study, people have learned English and German, what about you? In addition to making progress in fighting, killing, and killing, even Germans can't understand a few words of German, so let's stay in Nanjing and continue to study! ”

After Xiao Yimin finished speaking, he whistled out of the office, so angry that Wu San sat down, thought about it, and finally hung his head helplessly and accepted his fate.

(To be continued)