Situ Meitang did not continue to ask about the situation in China, but talked about the situation in the United States, he touched his beard and said, "You know that the US Congress passed the bill to amend the Neutrality Act, right?" ”

Jiang Cheng nodded and said, "Yes, the Americans have already begun to prepare for war gains, I have guessed this a long time ago." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

Situ Meitang hummed and said, "Amending this bill is an opening in the procedure, but Roosevelt didn't just do this, since the German army started the war with Britain and France, Roosevelt has held several meetings with various consortia, especially those large arms consortia, and they move around each other frequently, and the Americans are playing a big game of chess." ”

Jiang Cheng asked, "Is there anything wrong?" ”

Situ Meitang raised his finger and said, "Of course there is, the most obvious thing is that in their shipbuilding industry, all the docks are expanding, and they are all large docks, although there is no plan to build new warships, but they are just preparing, after all, other weapons production expansion only needs a short time for the United States to complete, only shipbuilding must be prepared in advance." ”

The U.S. Navy due to the agreement of the First World War, in tonnage and Britain equal, at this time there are 17 battleships, 8 aircraft carriers, 18 heavy cruisers, 19 light cruisers, 165 destroyers, the total tonnage of 1.43 million tons, the number has surpassed Britain, but this number in the later World War II in the United States in front of the strength of a child, in the Jiang Cheng plane of World War II, the United States in less than five years, the United States built 26 large aircraft carriers, 9 light aircraft carriers, 115 escort aircraft carriers, 10 battleships, 48 cruisers, 349 destroyers, 498 frigates, 203 submarines, tens of thousands of various landing ships, and tens of millions of tons of civilian ships, such shipbuilding forces make the United States the only country with a thousand ships after World War II, but such production capacity was not achieved overnight, but began to increase at the beginning of World War II, of course, at this time the name of expanding shipyards was to make more transport ships later, after all, everyone can see, After that, the proportion of European merchant ships on the sea must be greatly reduced, and there will be no shortage of orders for transport ships.

Jiang Cheng felt a toothache when he thought of the terrifying naval strength, but even now that China is unified and begins to farm and explode the navy, don't think about being in the navy with the United States, this is no longer a problem that can be solved by some advanced machinery.

Since it couldn't be solved, he didn't want to think about it, Jiang Cheng asked Situ Meitang, "Is there any news about the French detachment I reported before?" ”

Zhang Ye took out a piece of information and said, "This is the tip we got, this detachment has not arrived in Canada, after they got the news of the British attack on the French Navy, they stayed on the sea about a hundred nautical miles away from Canada, it seems that there is a dispute on the fleet." ”

When Jiang Cheng heard the news, he immediately let out a long breath, it was good that he didn't arrive in Canada, although he was not afraid of Canada's officials, but after all, there was the United States next to him, and Canada was still subordinate to the United Kingdom at this time, Jiang Cheng immediately said, "Without further ado, if the fleet arrives in Canada or other countries, it will be difficult for us to get them, and immediately organize a fleet to accept this fleet!" ”

Zhang Ye nodded and said, "Our ship is ready, but we are only merchant ships, we don't have any heavy firepower, if they resist, I'm afraid we won't be able to stop them." ”

Jiang Cheng smiled and said, "If we can sink these ships, then we can go directly to fight the Japanese fleet, it doesn't matter, this time we were originally going to Wentori, I hope they can stay for a few more days." ”

In fact, it was not only this detachment, but also the French navy was extremely resentful of Britain because of Britain's undeclared war against the French army, especially under Jiang Cheng's prompting, and Hitler specially announced that he would not force the French army to join the war against Britain, which made the French fleets everywhere confused about whether to join de Gaulle's Free France and continue to fight against Germany. You know, at this time, de Gaulle's Free France was only 3,000 people, and weapons were even more scarce, so it can be said that it was a real grass platform team, which did not have much attraction, although Vice Admiral Missellier announced that he would join Free France, but in front of Dar Lang, it was nothing.

De Gaulle, who was now anxious to achieve a victory over Germany in order to strengthen his influence, had already begun to prepare, and if in a few more months the detachment might not hesitate but throw itself headlong into the arms of de Gaulle and Churchill, but alas, it would be a few more months.

-- The high seas more than 100 nautical miles from the port of Halifax, Canada

At this time, the weather was not bad, although there were some wind and waves, but it was a sunny day, and the three battleships lowered their anchors and stopped on the sea, they had been stagnant here for almost a week, and still did not discuss the final decision.

Hill is the commander of this detachment, and the captain of the Belden, just like the naval hospitals of other countries, the French Navy's food and logistics are also the best among all services, he poured a glass of red wine, stood on the deck, looked at the moon, and fell into confusion.

Louis, the captain of the Joan of Arc, came over and said to Hill, "General Hill, are you still hesitating?" ”

Hill sighed and said, "The British now regard us as enemies, you look at the fate of our compatriots in the British, as well as the tragic situation of our comrades-in-arms in Toulon and North Africa, I am really worried that if we go to Canada, we will be ordered to surrender or sink ourselves, such an ending I will not allow to happen." ”

Louis leaned against the railing and said, "But what should we do?" We still have so many potatoes on board, which are the wealth of our nation, and if we go back to France, we will probably be snatched by the Germans, and all our efforts will be in vain. ”

Louiser's potato is actually gold, and when the British and French armies were losing and retreating, the French government was in chaos, and there were differences of opinion on whether to fight or surrender. Seeing that the German army was pouring in like a tide, the country was in danger, in order to be on the safe side, the French government secretly launched a plan, ready to transport the reserve gold in the national bank overseas, in order to ensure the safety of the gold to the greatest extent, the main route was divided into two routes, one way for 5 warships, transported more than 1,000 tons of gold to Africa, at this time it has reached the safe arrival of the port of Dahal, the capital of Senegal, and scattered 1152 tons of gold in the tropical jungle, waiting for the end of the war.

The other way is this detachment, in fact, this fleet has already transported a batch of gold to some neutral countries, this is the second batch of gold, all in potato bags for the sake of concealment, claiming to be potatoes.

Hill actually has a sentence that he hasn't said, in fact, he is more worried about whether the gold will still belong to France when it arrives in Canada, although Britain has a lot of money, but everyone can see that Britain wants to win this war, it is impossible not to pay a huge price, the war is logistics, the United States is next to Canada, it is too convenient to exchange this gold for American weapons, as for what international agreements.... You France have declared war with me, England, what's wrong with me using your gold?

"Report! Discover the fleet at 14,000 kilometers! It looks like it's supposed to be a merchant ship, do you want them to leave? A communications soldier walked over to Hill.

Hill handed the wine glass to the soldier next to him, took the binoculars and looked at it, only to see a little fire in the distance, he hummed and said, "Well, it is indeed the appearance of a merchant ship, it should not be a warship, it may be a Canadian or an American.... Let them go. ”

The signal corps immediately transmitted orders, and at this time on the sea, there was no such high technology as later generations, and for ships that were not their own fleet, they could only use lights and flags to transmit orders, and they could only use clear codes, so they saw that the lights on the Belden aircraft carrier began to flash and transmit messages.

Hill walked up to Louiser and said, "Actually, I still have an idea, let's just go to the United States, what do you think?" ”

The United States was a neutral country at this time, and the United States had deep pockets, so it would not be greedy for more than 200 tons of gold, and it could also deposit the gold in American banks.

"The United States... It's a good idea, but those of us might have to stay in the U.S. until the war is over. Louis said a little unwillingly, in fact, in his heart, he still hoped to join de Gaulle's Free France, but the British did not even say this.

"Report, Commander, the merchant ship said it wanted to meet you." The communications soldier ran over again and said.

Hill asked curiously, "Meet me?" They know who we are... Well, the British and Canadians probably knew we were here, but our planes were constantly patrolling and couldn't raid us. ”

Hill said this because he had been tracked by British warships when he left France, and even in history, when he came to Martinique, the British fleet attacked him, and it was the United States that mediated between him so that the detachment did not die in vain under the British guns and aircraft bombs.

"Merchant Marine... Could there be some conspiracy? Louis asked worriedly.

Hill took a sip of red wine and smiled, "We've all become homeless, what are we afraid of?" If we were to be afraid of even a merchant ship, we would have surrendered to the British or the Germans. ”

The speed of the merchant ship was very fast, and about an hour later, Hill got the news in the cabin that the people of the merchant ship had boarded the ship, and what surprised him even more was that this strange merchant ship was actually Chinese.... Chinese? What are they coming to do?

Soon, three or four Chinese walked into the control tower, and Hill looked at Jiang Cheng standing in the middle and asked strangely, "Chinese?" Can you understand me? ”

Jiang Cheng nodded and said, "It's a pleasure to meet you, General Hill, you can call me Jiang." ”

Hill continued, "So ginger, I wonder why you're meeting me?" What do you China want to say to me? ”

Hill began to speculate about China's possible role in this matter, is it to ask China to mediate? It's not impossible, after all, to some extent, the status of China and France is already very similar, and France is not as good as China, but China has held out for so long and has not been defeated.

Jiang Cheng looked around, there were more than a dozen people in this command tower, including four sailors, and the others were officers.

Jiang Cheng smiled at Hill and said, "I'm sorry, I need to talk to you alone, I don't know if it's convenient?" ”

Louis stepped forward and said, "Who are you?" Why do you have a private chat with our general? ”

Jiang Cheng took out a photo from his arms and said, "General Hill, look, your daughter is really cute." ”

Hill only felt five thunderbolts, he never thought that Jiang Cheng would take out a photo of his home, he shouted angrily, "Who are you?" Why is there something in my house? ”

The sailor next to him immediately pulled out a gun and pointed it at Jiang Cheng and Zhang Ye and others, Zhang Ye glared at the sailor angrily, but because of the body search, he had no weapon to resist, so he could only hold his fist to protect Jiang Cheng's body.

Jiang Cheng smiled and opened Zhang Ye, took out a letter and said, "General Hill, please don't be nervous, this is a letter from your daughter and your wife, I am a trustworthy person, I am willing to go on your battleship alone, are you still afraid that I will destroy your battleship?" He did it, if necessary.

Hill hurriedly took the letter, due to the urgency of time, he did not let his family leave France, and his family was most worried overseas, just because his commander had to hide the soft side, at this time, when he saw the letter, where could he bear it, he immediately looked at it, and after a while, tears flowed, he wiped his tears and said to Jiang Cheng, "Thank you, Jiang, my wife told me in the letter, because of you, they are all well taken care of, I thank you personally on behalf of me." If you're just here to deliver a letter, I'd like to invite you to lunch, and if you have anything else, I hope you can talk to me and my subordinates here. ”

Although Hill is excited, he is not stupid, where are his wife and daughter now? In the hands of the Germans, this Chinese can order the Germans to improve their own family life, naturally on the side of the Germans, eighty percent of them came this time to persuade themselves to surrender on behalf of Germany and Vichy France.

Jiang Cheng looked at the sailors around him, nodded, and said, "Then can you keep only the senior officers?" ”

Hill accepted this, so he let the sailors out, Jiang Cheng took out a document and said, "This is the order given to you by Commander Darlang, you take a look at it first, you will say it while you look at me." ”

Dar Lang wrote the order very simply, ordering the detachment to cancel the previous order and return to the French naval sequence, and then ordering all the navy to retire and join Jiang Cheng's merchant group in the form of mercenaries, and at the same time, these three ships will also be sold to Jiang Cheng by way of sale, so as long as Hill returns to the French naval sequence, he can directly take the ship to listen to Jiang Cheng's command.

Hill was dumbfounded, if it weren't for the Great Seal of the Admiralty and the secret mark, he would have suspected that he was reading a novel and that he had been sold??? (To be continued.) )