In front of the deck guardrail of the destroyer USS Ice City.

Fang Zhenguo held the guardrail with both hands, looking at the sea and sky in the distance, and there was infinite emotion in his heart.

Twenty years ago.

He followed this destroyer to the sea to carry out that military mission of life and death.

After a 20-year absence, he boarded the warship again, and the emotions in his heart couldn't help but surge out.

Fang Yuan and Admiral Rhodes walked over and stood beside him.

The three of them didn't speak, just quietly looked at the sea and sky in the distance.

After a long time.

Admiral Rhodes rubbed the side of the Ice City and said leisurely: "You are just in time, if it is a few months, maybe you will not see this destroyer." ”

"Why? Is the Ice City going to be retired? But this destroyer is not very old. Fang Zhenguo was stunned for a moment, very surprised.

Admiral Rhodes explained: "The military is negotiating with the Kingdom of Nidara to import the Star Source Mine. However, the kingdom of Nidara did not want money and offered to buy our warships.

"The above is being discussed, although the Ice City has not yet reached the time of retirement, but it has also been in service for twenty or thirty years, and it is a good choice to retire and sell it now.

"Moreover, the new 10,000-ton destroyers have also been launched one after another, and there should be new destroyers to inherit the name of the Ice City."

As for warships and aircraft, those that have been retired by major powers can indeed be sold to countries with lower military strength.

The tatters of the White Eagle Country are sold all over the world.

Of course, for a big country, it is a tattered, for a small country, a Pei-class frigate, that is the main battleship.

Fang Yuan thought of the Pei-class escort fleet he had encountered in the Mariana Trench before, and couldn't help frowning and said, "Didn't there be intelligence before that the sunken fleet of the Spear of God was purchased from the Nidara Kingdom?" Now are we going to sell warships to Nidara too? ”

"The import of Xingyuan Ore is indeed very important, and if you import Xingyuan Ore from Nidala, the price will be much lower than that of the domestic Xingyuan Ore. The requirements of the Nidara Kingdom are to ask for warships, planes and other weapons, and our country does have a batch of armaments that are almost ready for retirement, and it is indeed a cost-effective deal to sell them now. Admiral Rhodes explained.

"It's really a good thing to be able to sell and replace newer warships, but I still feel a little emotional when I think that the Ice City is going to be sold." Fang Zhenguo began to rub the side of the ship with his hands.

Fang Yuan didn't feel as much emotion as them, because this was the first time he had boarded the Ice City, and he didn't have the feeling of reuniting with their old friends.

……

After watching the battleship fire its guns and missiles fired, the trainees of the military scientific research class and Fang Xiaozhu excitedly talked about going back.

Han Youwei and the others hadn't seen Fang Yuan just now, but when they saw it on the deck at this moment, they stepped forward and asked, "Where did you go just now?" I didn't see you when I was doing the drill. ”

"Have a meeting with Admiral Rhodes. It's okay, you can just participate in the drill. Fang Yuan replied casually.

Fang Xiaozhu was also very excited, and said with his hands dancing: "It's fun to shoot the cannon, but the little sunflower was scared away, flying everywhere and squeaking, at first glance, it is not the material to be a pirate." ”

Beef balls are the most excited, and he was bragging all the way just now.

"Fang Yuan, you definitely didn't think that I used the Black Crystal Shield Armor to bombard the ship's artillery just now, intact, isn't it powerful?"

Eve glanced at him and said, "You can't think of it, right?" Knowing what the strong interaction force is, we all know that the naval cannon can't penetrate the Black Crystal Shield Armor. ”

Fang Yuan stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder, saying, "If you want to test the defensive power of the Black Crystal Shield Armor, you shouldn't look for naval guns, you should try nuclear bombs. ”

"Nuke!" Beef Ball's eyes widened suddenly.

Eve added: "That's right, nuclear bombs shouldn't be able to blow up. ”

"So powerful? Am I invincible then? Beef balls suddenly waved their fists excitedly, with an expression ready to challenge the world.

Eve immediately struck: "You think too much, a nuclear bomb can't damage the Black Crystal Shield, but the person hiding behind the Black Crystal Shield Armor will be gone in an instant." ”

"What do you mean?" Beef meatballs blinked.

"It means...... You're too weak. "Eve ruthlessly destroys his invincible thoughts.

At the end of the exercise, the destroyer USS Ice City began to return home.

Fang Zhenguo learned that the destroyer Bingcheng might be sold to other countries, and when he got off the ship, he was nostalgic for a while.

……

The Eastern Naval side is indeed negotiating with Nidara about the import of the Star Source Mine and the purchase of military weapons.

While Fang Yuan was training the acceleration efficiency of the "Lightning God Speed", he was slightly concerned about this matter.

Subsequently, the military discovered that Nidara was buying military weapons not only from Huaxia, but from the whole world.

The aircraft carriers of the Northern Bear Country, the fighters of the White Eagle Country, the French, the German, the Britannica.

The Kingdom of Nidara has bought almost all the weapons of the world's arms-exporting countries, even aircraft carriers.

No matter how you look at it, it's all about building a superfleet.

Moreover, the Kingdom of Nidara is wielding a large amount of Star Source Ore to buy, which makes it difficult for the major arms exporting countries to resist this temptation.

It's just that if it is really sold, and the Kingdom of Nidara makes a super fleet, who knows what he wants to do?

Because of this world.

On behalf of the military, Admiral Rhodes led a diplomatic team to visit the Northern Bear Country and the White Eagle Country, hoping to reach a consensus not to export large warships, missiles and warplanes to the Kingdom of Nidara for the time being, and wait for the situation to become clear before making a decision.

In this matter, the goals of several major powers are the same.

Because the purpose of the large-scale purchase of large arms by the Kingdom of Nidara is not known, all countries may be threatened.

As a result, the negotiations went relatively smoothly, and several major powers promised to wait and see and put on hold the arms purchases of the Kingdom of Nidara for the time being.

This was a major event, and after it was completed, Admiral Rhodes was able to return to the East China Sea.

A consensus has been reached with the White Eagle Country and the Northern Bear Country.

Therefore, the sale of the destroyer Ice City was also put on hold for the time being.

This destroyer, which has been in service for more than 20 years, continues to dock quietly in the military port, so that these nostalgic people can still take a look at it from a distance.

Originally, the military was about to agree to the contract for the purchase of warships in Nidara, but the sale plan was suddenly shelved.

This made the prince of the Kingdom of Nidara, Nick Tesman, and the accompanying officials he brought with him very angry, and repeatedly argued with the top brass of the Eastern Navy, but in the end nothing came of it.

Eventually, Nick Tesman angrily took the mission to board the plane and leave Huaxia and return to Nidara.

When the five members of the team gathered at Fang Yuan's house, Eve was still very emotional about this matter.

"It's a pity, the old destroyers are almost decommissioned, how good it would be to sell the wronged boss to Nidara, then we will have the money to build more advanced warships."

If the Nidara Kingdom just wants to buy a few warships, it is indeed sold to the Nidara Kingdom, which has more benefits.

However, the behavior of the Nidara Kingdom to buy warships on a large scale is too strange for people to be vigilant.