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--- rare dividing line----

On January 16, 1915, the eastern Pacific Ocean was raining heavily, the sea roared madly, the sea and sky were gray, and dozens of toy warships swayed between the rolling waves and the low-hanging cloud feet......

This is 1,700 nautical miles southeast of Hawaii and 3,000 nautical miles northwest of Panama, and Vice Admiral Liang Shuming's mobile fleet has been struggling for two days and one night in this abusive storm.

On the "Dapeng", the flagship of the mobile fleet, a young woman in a flight suit and a small ponytail in the confinement room was dragged out by two big men in military uniforms with bulging muscles.

"It's pathetic to vomit and faint."

"Deliver to the infirmary."

"I saved my comrades, but I turned around like this, hey......"

"The military order is like a mountain, but in the past, you would lose your head. On the battlefield, it's either you die or I live, everyone is busy saving their comrades, and they treat the commander's order as a fart, and it's a fart battle. ”

"After all, it's a woman, it's too reluctant, and I don't know what will happen to the road if I am caught by the American devils......"

"What will happen?" Warrant Officer Qi Bing of the 117th Ship Attack Squadron opened his eyes slightly and asked a vague rhetorical question.

One of the sailors with a broad face hurriedly stood up: "Sir...... Did you hear that? ”

"Hear what? Where are you taking me? Only then did Qi Bing realize that he was lying on the back of another sailor, and the two small balls of flesh on his chest were tightly pressed against the thick and broad back of the other party—I don't know why, and suddenly his scalp was numb.

Without waiting for the other party to reply, a female pilot with a long ponytail shook out in front of her, compared to Qi Bing with a cute little face, her appearance was more feminine.

"You two, where are you going to take my Xiaoice?"

The wide-faced sailor hurriedly shook his hand and explained: "This, that, it's not like that, we came to investigate on the order of the captain, and found that she had fainted, so we planned to send her to the infirmary." ”

"Leave it to me, I can still carry her, it seems that she has weighed a few pounds recently, which will affect the flight range of the plane, it is really ......" Cai Guolan began to roll up her sleeves.

"I'm fine." Qi Bing smiled weakly, his face turned white, and his little head suddenly drooped down like a rabbit that had been beaten by a stuffy stick......

In the "Dapeng" infirmary, in front of a hospital bed separated by a white curtain, Cai Guolan and Qi Bing's brother Qi Peng sat side by side.

"It's all because of me, even Xiaoice." Cai Guolan bit her lip and blamed herself.

Qi Peng rubbed his fists, and his eyes, which were as beautiful as Qi Bing, showed an uninhibited flying chivalrous spirit: "That's her own choice - then again, if it were me, I would do the same." ”

Cai Guolan tugged at the ponytail behind her head and shook her head slightly: "You are brothers and sisters, others don't think so." In the final analysis, it was my own skills that were not up to par, and I was beaten down in the first battle, which was too embarrassing, and I heard that there were only sixteen planes in the entire team that did not come back, and my little boy was one of them! ”

"Don't think about it, it's all over. Besides, when our team is not fighting, don't drop dozens of planes a year? Qi Peng went around in a circle to comfort her.

"You can really talk." Cai Guolan couldn't help but want to tease him, "By the way, I heard that your little duke is going to get married, and the other party is the son of the Ryukyu king - unfortunately, Xiaoice said that the princess is interesting to you." ”

Qi Peng's face suddenly turned red, and he waved his hand again and again: "What's the matter, you listen to this little girl's nonsense, she herself is obsessed with His Royal Highness the Prince, you don't know what to do, when she saw His Royal Highness in Brussels, her eyes were straight, and she looked like a spring and bright, ouch, I can't stand it......"

"Who's eyes are straight." Qi Bing, who was still in a quiet sleeping beauty just now, suddenly opened his eyes, and his tense little face turned towards his brother leisurely.

Qi Peng was stunned for a moment, and tried to get through the trick with Ha Luha: "It's nothing, it's nothing, you must have heard it wrong." ”

After that, he casually picked up a special issue of "New Literature and Art" and smashed it on the old girl's face: "Look how good my brother is to you, I finally grabbed this special issue of New Literature and Art for you from the library, and the few new romantic novelists you like all have new works in it, and I wanted to send it to the confinement room for you to kill time, but I didn't let it, I couldn't ...... it."

The cover of this special issue depicts an airship painted with the word "Lingyun" on its hull, and on the right side is a vertical row of hollowed-out regular script titles "New Literature and Art", and a large English title is also marked next to it.

Among them, the most eye-catching, that is, the column with the largest font and the most ornate structure, is impressively marked: "Dream of the city in the sky!" The new masterpiece of Zhou Xiangyu, the new prince of the dark horse of neo-romanticism, is exclusively released in this magazine, and the special offer comes with a photo of Zhou Xiangyu's student outfit ......"

"Don't pretend here, whisper bad things about people behind your back, and hear them all, villain." Qi Bing muttered dissatisfiedly, flipped through the magazine, and suddenly became excited: "There are photos!" Photo! What about the photos? ”

Qi Peng said: "What photo?" ”

"Zhou Xiangyu, little Zhou Zhou's photo, give it to me, give it to me!" Qi Bing has fallen into the fanaticism of a certain cult.

Cai Guolan sighed and patted Qi Bing's forehead: "What kind of nympho is it, it's still a little Zhou Zhou Xiao Zhou Zhou, don't be ashamed, people are three years younger than you, little brother is here." ”

"I also said, don't you have a photo of Xiao Zhouzhou, the background is the Eiffel Tower, and you borrow it to see it with a rigid stinky face, for fear that I will steal it, he is five years younger than you, what do you say?"

Cai Guolan was so anxious that she slapped her thigh: "Oh, dead girl, I vomited and vomited, I fainted, this stinky mouth is quite neat, I see that you are purely pretending to be sick, and I will send you back to the confinement room quickly." ”

"The confinement room will be spared." A calm and deep voice suddenly came from the other side of the door, and the three of them turned their heads to see that it was Major General Bi Lingbo, the commander of the battle team!

Qi Peng and Cai Guolan suddenly jumped up like a spring, and stood up and saluted mechanically with conditioned reflexes.

Qi Bing struggled to remember, and was knocked down by Bi Lingbo, no, pressed down, not right...... Than the gesture stopped.

"Sit down, I'm just here to see." Bi Lingbo smiled and pulled a chair to sit down.

"Yes, thanks to the commander's care......" Qi Bing replied programmatically, while covering his ears and stealing the bell, he stuffed the troublesome "New Literature and Art" under the quilt little by little.

"How's it going, I heard I fainted in the confinement cell? This is the negligence of the guards, the captain has ordered the relevant personnel to be held accountable, you can tell me anything you want, were you bullied by the guards? ”

"No, it's none of their business, I thought I could go through it, so I didn't tell anyone, and besides, it's too embarrassing to be seasick as a navy, and I don't want to be known...... In short, please sir, please don't punish them. ”

Bi Lingbo lowered his face awkwardly: "It's up to me to decide whether to punish or not, the rules and regulations are there, and I can do what I need to do." The same is true of you, although you have made a great contribution to rescuing your comrades from the siege of the enemy, but the crime of disobeying the military order cannot be compensated, so you will be awarded the Medal of Loyalty and Valor, and you will be given the punishment of being demoted by one level and confined for fifteen days. Well, if there's anything you don't understand, you can tell me now. Although you and Lieutenant Cai are women, our technical skills are higher than those of the same batch of male pilots, and they are both the precious core combat strength of our combat team, and they are also the foundation for the future development and growth of our naval aviation. I value you very much, but I will never allow you to forget about the military regulations because of your personal will, affecting other comrades-in-arms and even the entire warring team and fleet, and the military orders are like a mountain, this is not a joke, understand? ”

"Yes, I'll pay attention to it later......"

"There is no future, next time there is such a thing, go home and farm."

Qi Bing lowered his head pitifully: "Yes, follow the instructions of the chief, there will be no next time......"

Bi Lingbo nodded with a little satisfaction: "Well, that's right, and I will tell you another good news, with the approval of your superiors, the remaining days of your confinement will be retained." ”

"Retention processing?" Qi Bing's eyes that were about to cry suddenly lit up.

"Just stay there first, take advantage of this time to take care of your body, pay close attention to training, and make meritorious contributions in the next battle."

"The next battle?"

Qi Bing, who had been locked up before the fleet set sail from Hawaii, didn't know anything about where he was going.

"Panama, the choke point of America, we're going to blow up that canal that just finished and get stuck in the Yankees' neck."

On the same day, in a white house in Peanutun, the capital of the United States, Grand Chief Wilson ...... His Excellency the President has a Havana cigar between his fingers and is silently listening to the report of Vice Admiral William S. Simms, the first chief of staff of the United States Navy.

“…… In three months we had only three Dreadnoughts left available, less than a fifth of the opponent's, and the enemy's carrier-based aviation was more than capable of turning San Diego into a second Pearl Harbor. ”

Lieutenant General Sims, with his beautiful eyelashes and a high nose, spoke with vigor and intellectual enthusiasm in his turquoise blue eyes, which was in line with Wilson's image of a "wise warrior."

"In my opinion, until our warships and aircraft carriers reach a sufficient number, the main forces of the fleet should try to distance themselves from the overwhelmingly superior enemy so as not to suffer unnecessary losses. The defense of the West Coast and Panama could be entirely left to the Army, and in fact, if the enemy immediately crossed the sea and attacked the West Coast, the remnants of the fleet would not play any substantial role in defending the homeland. ”

"If the remnants of the fleet are lost in the defense of the West Coast, then we will have to go back to the days before Roosevelt and start all over again. In particular, the officers and men of those warships are our most valuable asset, and with them we will be able to assemble a large fleet to overwhelm the enemy in two years. If they are unfortunate enough to sink with the ship, we will have to rely entirely on rookies and reserves to reorganize the fleet, and our opponents have been in battle for a long time, and it will be very difficult to win this war......"

"In addition, there are fifteen large docks on the east coast, and there are only two docks on the west coast that can be used by dreadnought battleships, which cannot fully accommodate the ships damaged at Pearl Harbor, and the ships repaired here are constantly in danger of being attacked by enemy fleets. In order to restore the strength of the fleet as soon as possible, it is also necessary to transfer these damaged ships to the safety of the east coast for repair. ”

"Finally, when the fleet was moved to the east coast, it could either provide support for the expeditionary force in the plan to Europe, or it could unite with the British Navy against the German fleet...... In short, both the army and navy should give priority to the European theater of operations, give priority to Germany before China, concentrate forces, and defeat each one. ”

President Wilson listened to the report without saying a word, and pointed the cigar in his hand to Secretary of the Navy Daniels, who was next to Vice Admiral S. Sims, and motioned for him to comment.

Daniels cleared his throat and spoke in his characteristic pretense: "I think Vice Admiral Simms's report is highly plausible and very much in line with the current state of the Navy. In my opinion, the key to winning this war is patience, and it is not intolerable to temporarily withdraw the American fleet from the Pacific Ocean for the sake of a parade of American GIs in the Forbidden City in Beijing at some point in the future. ”

Before the words fell, War Secretary Stimson raised his broad and shiny forehead slightly: "So how many troops do you think the Army should use to defend our long coastline?" No, not only ours, but also the garbage country of those revolutions and coups d'état in the south! The Germans ignored the Monroe Doctrine for a time, but they had the British standing guard at their gates, and at most they fired a few cannons on the shores of Venezuela in an attempt to recover the debts that had been squandered by the dictatorship. But the Chinese are different, except for the US Navy, there is no force in the Pacific that can threaten them, and if the Navy withdraws from the Pacific Ocean, the entire west coast of America will become a paradise for them to travel freely! ”

Stimson paused, and then raised his voice slightly: "From Alaska to Chile, we can't predict that they will land there, let alone how many allies they can pull from this continent, you know, we have no real friends in the south, the weak fear us, the strong hate us, and our righteous actions are only a manifestation of imperialist power in their eyes——"

"You're right, but as I just said, even if the fleet stays on the west coast, it won't be able to prevent the enemy from landing, and it will only be sacrificed in vain." Sims replied unusually calmly.

"Yes, the Navy cannot be sacrificed in vain." Stimson shrugged and tilted his neck sarcastically.

"In this way, no one will want to transport the army to Europe for eighteen months, and we will not only have to cast a net on all fronts to defend the entire west coast of America, but we will also have enough mobile forces to deal a head-on blow to the enemy who dares to attack. And we don't have enough troops to defend the West Coast, we don't have officers, we don't have artillery, we don't have boots, we don't have cans, we don't have anything! Europe? They should still have enough blood to flow. ”