Broken chariots, scattered artillery, and even swollen corpses that have been soaked all over the ground need to be cleaned up. Although cities throughout the Cossack Empire were protected by walls in order to keep the wind and warm in winter, the outside of the city had to be cleaned up, and if the corpses were allowed to decompose, the epidemic would soon appear.

Relying on the walls of the cities and the large fortresses that had been built, the Cossack inhabitants who had been evacuated in advance escaped the flood safely, and they returned to their homes. The Chinese Empire agreed to give them handsome compensation to help them rebuild their homes destroyed by the floods, while the government hired residents to clean up the land in payment for various wintering supplies.

The corpses were gathered and burned, and the broken weapons were pulled back to the rear, but fortunately, the merchants of the Chinese Empire built electroslag furnaces in the territory of the Cossack Empire to smelt scrap steel, and the damaged steel would be used for civilian facilities after the refurnace.

The trenches near the banks of the river, when the flood came, were completely washed away. The diversion effect of these trenches was also one of the reasons for the heavy losses of the Axis troops stationed here, and now the positions needed to be re-excavated in case of a possible Axis attack in the coming year.

In addition, the embankment will need to be repaired during the dry winter season to prevent unnecessary damage from the spring floods, and so much work will need to be done before the next spring. In addition to these tasks, the construction of wintering houses is more important, and they must build enough houses before the temperature drops too much.

This was enough work to be busy for a while, but fortunately there was no loss in the cities, enough places to house a large number of residents, and with the help of millions of troops, the work went quite smoothly. The work was a little busy, but the military pressure was lessened, and at least until next spring, Gauder could not think about the military pressure of the Axis powers.

The pressure on Gao Deyu has decreased slightly, but the situation in the navy is still very tense, because there are few large pieces of land in the eastern ocean, and warm winds from near the equator can easily blow to the high latitudes, which makes the temperature in the eastern ocean, as long as it is not the island in the far north, the temperature will not be low enough to freeze.

The temperature is suitable for combat, which is definitely not good news for the NATO alliance, because every day the war drags on, NATO's strength is stronger, and the entire Chinese empire is rapidly using its powerful industrial potential to rapidly improve the combat effectiveness of the NATO allies, and now it is not the NATO alliance but the Axis bloc that is afraid of the war delay. The Axis bloc would be wiped out if it could not be eliminated before the Chinese Empire's military strength could grow, and by this time the first reserve units of the Chinese Empire had completed a year of training as recruits and began to deploy on the western front.

When the battle on the battlefield in the Middle Continent was stalled due to the bitter cold, the attention of both sides turned to the sea in the direction of the Eastern Ocean, where the advantages of both sides were not obvious. Once the situation here changes, it will affect the pattern of a new round of war in the western continent in the spring of the next year, so both sides attach great importance to the struggle for sea supremacy in the eastern ocean, and the responsibility for all this falls on the Chinese Imperial Navy.

For the action of controlling the sea, Zhang Haiyang has his own strict plan, and he has even prepared many follow-ups. However, under the current situation, the Boston Empire deployed 45 aircraft carriers and its escort fleet to the Eastern Ocean, which made General Feng Ju, commander of the Eastern Ocean Fleet of the Chinese Empire, who had only 16 aircraft carriers in his hands, a little difficult, and in order to better attack the enemy, he had to send out 30 cruiser formations in his hands to fight a naval guerrilla war.

Fog often appears on the sea in winter, especially in the early morning, when the cruiser formation of the Chinese Empire is sailing eight hundred nautical miles west of the Imperial Jinshan Harbor in Boston.

The cruiser formation of the Eastern Ocean Fleet adopts a six-ship configuration of two cruisers and four destroyers, and with enough missiles, they are enough to cope with any skirmish, and can even withstand the attack of all the carrier-based aircraft of a Boston aircraft carrier, and this cruiser formation at this time is the first fleet in the cruiser fleet, and sitting on the flagship Guiyang is the commander of the cruiser detachment of the Eastern Ocean Fleet, Gao Bo, who was born as an orphan.

When he got up in the morning, Gao Bo exercised in the single room for half an hour, wiping his sweat and feeling hungry. After putting on his military uniform, Gao Bo quickly came to the canteen on the warship.

"Lao Chen, what are we going to eat today?" As soon as he entered the cafeteria, he greeted the cook. Lao Chen, who was busy working in the cafeteria cubicle, raised his head and found that the commander had already stepped closer. Lao Chen said with a smile: "Today is a steamed bun stuffed with pork and green onions, plus freshly pickled radish pickles." ”

Gao Bo smiled: "Oh, good things, bring me six buns and a plate of pickles." ”

Lao Chen said with a smile while going to get food for Gao Bo: "Commander, you are the first to come every day, and I have already set it aside for you." Before Lao Chen's bun was taken out, an alarm suddenly sounded on the warship.

Hearing the alarm, Gao Bo's face changed, and he said to Lao Chen: "Keep the buns for me, and I'll eat them when I come back." With that, he ran out of the door, thinking about the bridge all the time.

"What's going on?" Gao Bo rushed into the bridge and asked loudly.

"The radar found a suspicious target, in the northeast direction, sixty nautical miles away from us, which has just been discovered by the sea search radar." An operational staff officer immediately reported.

"Oh? Confirm the target immediately. "High wave.

"It's too far away, and there's mist on the sea, it's hard to confirm visually." The combat staff officer replied.

Gao Bo touched his chin and said, "There should be no problem with the helicopter, let the helicopter go out to confirm the target, and at the same time the fleet will move in the direction of the target at full speed." ”

"Yes, execute the order immediately." The combat staff officer said and ran to the bridge phone.

Taking off in the fog is also very dangerous, but the ship-based helicopters of the Chinese Empire have a complete radar system, and flying in the fog is not too much of a problem. Pilot Gao Wei and navigator Qiao Lihong quickly prepared for takeoff, "Wasp 9 is ready, request to take off." Gao Wei reported in the communicator.

"Wind level three, sea state level one, can take off." An order came from inside the bridge.

After receiving the take-off order, Gao Wei skillfully operated it, and the propeller of the wasp anti-submarine helicopter turned faster and faster, and the helicopter slowly rose into the sky. The combat radius of the anti-submarine helicopter is not far, only 200 kilometers, about 111 nautical miles, and the target is 60 nautical miles away, so Gao Wei is not rich in fuel, and after climbing to a sufficient height, he immediately flew towards the target.

Turning on the sea search radar, Qiao Lihong quickly found the target on the radar screen, but because the performance of the airborne radar is not as good as the shipborne radar, the signal is very weak, but with the rapid approach of the distance, the signal is gradually clear. The helicopter avoided the fog on the sea surface at an altitude of 1,000 meters, and they quickly reached the target according to the radar guidance.

"The goal is below." Gao Wei said.

Qiao Lihong nodded: "Okay, turn on the infrared scanning system immediately." ”

With the existence of an infrared scanning system, you can clearly observe the distance outline of the warship on the sea surface, although you can't really see the whole picture, but for these pilots who are very familiar with the warships of various countries, as long as they see the outline, it is enough to identify the ship type.

"The targets found, four Boston Imperial Keeling-class destroyers, one civilian ship with an estimated tonnage of 20,000 tons, are not clearly targeted." Qiao Lihong looked at the screen of the infrared imager and quickly reported the ship type.

"Very well, the whole fleet is speeding up, and we will intercept this fleet." Gao Bo nodded and immediately ordered.

The cruiser formation was at full speed, the bow split the waves, and the whole fleet increased its speed to thirty knots and pounced on the opposing fleet, while the Bostonians were unaware of the impending danger.

Instead of ordering the fleet to pursue directly, Gao Bo cut into the course of the other side, and after an hour and a half, the two sides finally approached within ten nautical miles. At this time, all the warships of the cruiser formation used radar to lock on to the opposing warship, but the Bostonians did not detect the approach of the enemy warship because the radar was too large to be installed on the destroyer, and they did not feel the danger of the approach at all in the mist.

"The Guiyang and Yumen fired cannons to lure each other over, and the destroyers No. 2291 and No. 2292 went around and intercepted the other party's possible retreat line, and I want to capture this big ship." Gao Bo commanded the fleet to carefully surround it.

With a bang, the shell landed accurately on the port side of a Keeling-class destroyer under the locking of the fire control radar, startling the sailors on board. Soon the commander of the Boston people received the news of the naval artillery attack, and he was so frightened that his face turned white, this freighter was carrying quite important things, which could not be missed, and if it was sunk here, something big would happen in the country, so he immediately ordered four destroyers to meet the enemy with all their might, intercept the enemy warship, and give the freighter a chance to escape.

Judging the general direction, the Boston destroyers launched blind fire with their guns, desperately splashing shells, hoping to be lucky enough to hit the opponent. Seeing the four destroyers rushing over quickly, Gao Bo was startled, he originally just planned to attract part of the opponent's forces, slowly weaken the other party, until they were completely surrounded, forcing them to give up resistance, but he didn't expect these Bostonians to be so sensitive, only a few shells were fired, and the other party was all brought over, Gao Bo faintly felt that the freighter might not be simple.

The two cruisers and two destroyers led by Gao Bo turned a corner and headed in the other direction, avoiding the opposing destroyers. The Bostonians had no idea where the target was, but they saw where the previous shells were coming from and charged desperately, only to expose their side to the high wave fleet.