To everyone's surprise, the Southwest Air Force Task Force sank an aircraft carrier of the task force off the coast of Tianjin, damaging three large ships, including a battleship converted aircraft carrier.

When the news came, the whole country shook the whole country.

In the turbulent times and the tragic autumn, when the Kou wantonly trampled on our great rivers and mountains, such a great good news came to undoubtedly bring a glimmer of hope to this calamitous nation.

If it is said that the 'May Day Cooperation' signed by the Kuomintang and the Southwest Political Axe, such a peaceful anti-Japanese war agreement out of consideration for the overall situation, is a consensus on the premise of saving the nation, then the Southwest Army's real northward resistance can be regarded as injecting a trace of vitality into this unfortunate nation.

In May, the land of China was thoroughly encouraged by the news of this great victory, and a large number of students and citizens took to the streets in every city to celebrate the victory, calling on the Kuomintang to intensify cooperation with the political axe in the southwest and to recover the great rivers and mountains that had been stolen by the Japanese invaders as soon as possible.

Just when the Nanjing National Political Axe was at a loss to know where the southwest fighter plane took off, the Southwest United Political Axe had already released a press conference on the political axe news about the 5.14 Tianjin sea victory.

Li Zongren, foreign minister of the Southwest United Autonomous Government, personally attended the press conference and conveyed the latest decision of the Southwest Political Axe.

“…… This great victory was won with the joint efforts of the Southwest Union and the Kuomintang. Perhaps at this moment, many of you are reporting on the front line in Langfang, and from the battle situation announced by us and the Nanjing political axe and the news reports sent back by these brave reporters from the front line, you can see that both the Southwest People's Army and the Kuomintang army are fighting with all their might.

Among them, I think many people still remember that the martyr's bamboo tube picture taken by Major General Chen Jun of the 19th Route Army of the Anti-Japanese Alliance Army and Lieutenant General Chen Cheng of the 18th Route Army was taken together.

I have to admit that in this ongoing battle, neither the officers and men of the Southwest People's Army nor the Kuomintang chose to retreat, and they fought fiercely with the Japanese army day and night on the front line. As far as I know, some grassroots companies and battalions of the Southwest People's Army and the Kuomintang Army even had to replenish up to 70 percent of their recruits after half a month of fighting. This is a very terrible number, and it can be imagined how fierce the fierce battle between the two armies and the Yue army reached in Langfang.

Tragic sacrifices have been exchanged for tragic victories, and we have a long way to go on the road of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

In this air raid plan, our Southwest People's Army received the full cooperation of the Kuomintang political axe, and not only secretly provided a front-line airfield for the purpose of resisting the Japanese army, but also sent two squadrons led by Lieutenant Colonel Gao Zhihang to contain the fighters of the Chinese army, thus providing favorable conditions for the Southwest Air Force to finally and successfully complete its mission............ We call on the Kuomintang political axe to intensify its resistance to the Japanese and jointly resist the strong enemy, and the political axe in the southwest has made all preparations and is eager to make greater contributions to the resistance.

At the same time, here I am announcing a major decision on behalf of the Southwestern Political Axe.

In order to commemorate the Chinese sons and daughters who have died in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and are about to give their lives, Zhang Shusheng, the supreme leader of the Southwest United Autonomous Political Axe, personally signed the order of the Commander-in-Chief, and the Southwest Political Axe will build a memorial hall for the heroes of the Anti-Japanese War in Chengdu. Their exploits will be remembered through the ages!!

Finally, I want to tell you that the Chinese nation has never been a nation lacking heroes, what we lack is a kind of identification with heroes, and often contemporary heroes have suffered in their time, are unknown and not understood, and it will take thousands of years to be recognized by future generations. Now, instead of leaving the responsibility of honoring and celebrating heroes to future generations, what we need is to remember them from now on, to affirm them, to give them the highest recognition worthy of the hero's merits!! ”

...... "Regardless of party affiliation or place of origin, as long as they have made sacrifices for this war of resistance against Japanese people, they will all be recognized." Whether it is now or in the future, this nation will never forget the heroes, and forgetting those big men and people who once shed their blood for the nation is tantamount to betraying the entire nation. ”

Zhang Shusheng gently put down the report in his hand and said to Wei Sancai, vice premier and propaganda minister of the Government Affairs Yuan, in a serious tone, "Political propaganda is very important, but we must not manipulate these things. ”

"Please rest assured that the Propaganda Department will not do anything that violates the instructions of the General Chief, and all political propaganda will focus on the nation and the War of Resistance." Wei Sancai stood up unusually and saluted Zhang Shusheng like a soldier. In the room of these two people, he seems to be no longer the knowledgeable and well-versed political star, but the genius in the orphanage.

"Well, Sancai, political work is very important, but you also have to have a wiser political heart, how to grasp this degree, you still have to have more experience. You are not lacking in loyalty and talent, style and wisdom, coupled with years of tempering, you can go further in the future. Zhang Shusheng walked up to Wei Sancai and stretched out his hand to straighten his clothes for him, just like when he was in the orphanage, he remembered that at that time, Wei Sancai was one of the people who impressed him the most among the first batch of orphans. In the future, when no one is around, call me Dean. ”

"Yes, Dean."

Wei Sancai's eyes turned red inadvertently. As an orphan-born political star, his promotion will inevitably have Zhang Shusheng's trust and affirmation, but he did not regard himself as a person with great power from beginning to end, but conscientiously did the work of the Propaganda Department, determined to open the way to higher rights for this god-like and father-like figure in his mind through political propaganda.

He has always believed in the saying that "some things can never be exchanged for war and killing, especially absolute loyalty and followership, and the only way is to follow through propaganda and agitation".

Watching Wei Sancai leave, Zhang Shusheng couldn't help but sigh slightly, as his own propaganda minister, as the propaganda minister of the southwest, Wei Sancai is destined to become a feared and alienating person. Perhaps the current Propaganda Department is still quiet, but with the elevation of its own rights, in order to unify the will of the entire nation, for the sake of the future of the entire nation, some centralized things will inevitably happen, and just as has happened repeatedly in history and in future generations, political propaganda is always for the service of politicians, through white or malicious lies, the strength of a nation is gathered together to expand the territory or satisfy personal ambitions.

And Wei Sancai's absolute loyalty and political talent, as well as his meticulous style, are destined to make great achievements in political propaganda, and judging from some internal investigations obtained, Wei Sancai is gradually changing, from a person who was more wooden back then, he began to become sleek and wise in political propaganda. His growth path once surprised Zhang Shusheng a little, because he thought of a person, and it was that person in the future who assisted a greater person and achieved immortal achievements.

In the afternoon, Zhang Shusheng, escorted by the commander's guard, came to a mountain 130 kilometers north of the outskirts of Kunming, where a secret experiment was being conducted.

This SS-level secret base, which ranks among the best in the classified archives of the Southwest Special Intelligence Department, is called "China Jet Propulsion Laboratory"!

This is a mysterious base, and like other SS-class or even higher bases, its name and information cannot be found in any political axe files, and its existence can only be found in the archives of the Ministry of Special Intelligence and the 'Supreme Science and Technology Commission of China' headed by Zhang Shusheng, and on some necessary occasions, it is called the 'S11' laboratory.

This jet propulsion laboratory, located in the mountains, has been established since the finalization and production of the J-1 fighter jet for turbofan aircraft. After more than 10 years of painstaking scientific research, although not a single jet aircraft or an advanced rocket/jet engine has been produced so far, it has accumulated countless experiences, and several products derived from it have been used in the military.

The base had already made all the preparations for the experiment, and after welcoming Zhang Shusheng, the experiment was ready to begin.

It's a jet experiment.

"Director, this experiment is mainly divided into two parts. The first part will be a static ignition test of the engine, and in the afternoon there will be a second test, and a demonstrator will conduct a simulated test flight. ”

Murong Bo, the head of the jet propulsion laboratory, is a returned scholar, although he is not an expert in aircraft, but he is a dynamics expert who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, returned to China in the 20s, underwent strict political scrutiny, and finally became the director of the Chinese jet propulsion laboratory because of his unique ideas in dynamics.

And the director in his mouth is Zhang Shusheng, director of China's Supreme Science and Technology Commission.

For more than ten years, the laboratory has not produced any scientific research results with special representative surnames, and Murong Bo is a little ashamed every time he sees Director Zhang. However, this cannot be blamed on the laboratory, although the Supreme Science and Technology Council provided the most critical cutting-edge scientific and technological information on propulsion and jets, but the laboratory rose from the beginning of a few people, slowly grabbed people from all over the world and several universities in the southwest, and finally took ten years to basically solve half of the technical problems.

However, with the improvement of the overall scientific and technological level in the southwest, as some particularly outstanding students graduated from major universities and entered the laboratory, more and more Chinese scientists also returned to China with a heart to serve the country, and the progress of the laboratory was much faster.

If the war in the north is a war of national defense and resistance to aggression, this battle of tackling key scientific and technological problems in the southwest is a battle of gambling on tomorrow.

Even when the cannon of the war was at its loudest, the scientific and technological research and development in the southwest was in full swing, and it never stopped for a day, and many scientific researchers such as Murong Bo worked overtime.

They are patriotic, but they cherish this rare opportunity for scientific research even more.

When they saw that other parts of China were still living in dire straits, that those compatriots were still struggling under the line of extreme poverty, and that their own scientific research institutes were already spending millions of dollars on scientific research, they developed an urgent sense of mission, and they must not waste this money, and they must not let the investment of the southwest political axe go down the drain, which would be a crime against the entire nation.

As an ancillary product of the laboratory, the rocket and the rocket flight aid device that will be used in large aircraft are very advanced products, and they definitely belong to the first-class advanced goods of today's actual combat equipment.

Zhang Shusheng thought of the actual combat use of the bazooka in the battle report, and the troops used it to hit the enemy's targets within a range of 100 to 150 meters, and the firepower was fierce, it was easy for individual soldiers to work, and it was easy to carry, so it was a very good weapon of individual firepower.

"The bazooka finalized and designed by your laboratory has a very good actual combat effect, and it should be praised."

Murong Bo was a little embarrassed, he had made such achievements in the past ten years, he was embarrassed to write in the annual report on scientific research submitted to the Supreme Science and Technology Committee every year, "The director has won the award, but it is just to apply some mature science and technology to practice, and the production of rockets is not only an ancillary product, but also a design for the surname after the army put forward the demand." ”

From time to time, the experiment was finally ready. In a very empty mountainside, a rocket engine was placed in a laboratory, because it was a static ignition test to test the working condition of the engine, this all-metal engine even looked a little ugly, but the nozzle at the tail allowed Zhang Shusheng to find some of the jet tail tubes he saw when he was flying in his previous life.

Zhang Shusheng and Murong Bo stood in front of the display screen in the command room, paying attention to this experiment.

"Ignition!!"

After getting Zhang Shusheng's consent, Murong Bo aimed at the microphone in front of him and gave the order to ignite.

In the originally quiet laboratory, the tail pipe of the fixed engine began to spew flames, first with a popping sound, and then the tail flame slowly stabilized, and the engine began to be statically tested at a stable power.

"The engine is working fine!"

"The engine output is one-third of the rated power!"

"There is no abnormality in any part of the engine!"

"The burn rate is normal!"

…… Several rows of staff in the command room have reported a series of test data, and this high-tech laboratory has a "snap ......" for this advanced experiment

In the command room, Zhang Shusheng took the lead in applauding, and the staff in several rows of seats behind him also applauded, and the ignition test was successful, and the data were normal, as long as the engine could be free of abnormalities within the rated time, the engine static test experiment was a perfect success.

Zhang Shusheng made a brief speech on the spot, expressing great affirmation of the breakthrough progress made by the Jet and Propulsion Laboratory, and also gave a brief overview of the current high-tech technology in the southwest, after all, the manufacture of engines involves many high-tech alloy materials, and five years ago, this material could only be provided by Zhang Shusheng piecemeal, and now the southwest has been able to produce a small number of alloy materials for engines in limited quantities every month.

"In short, I am very sure of your work, and I want to tell you that it is not only the soldiers on the front line who are doing things for this nation, but also you. Different fronts, the same dedication, everything you do has only one goal, that is, everything for this suffering nation. ”――

(To be continued)