To be honest, the crew with a little space knowledge knows that once the hull is unassimilated in space, then the people in the ship are almost finished. Without the energy provided by the Divine Core, the space radiation and heat are isolated, and except for a few high-standard "safety cabins" in the cabin, other areas will immediately become a forbidden area for life.

As for the so-called "light protective suits" that the crews wore before the start of the battle, in order to take care of mobility, the level of protection simply cannot be compared with real space work suits. At best, it can only provide a psychological comfort, and the actual effect is nothing more than holding on for 1 or 2 minutes more, and then dying more painfully.

Approaching the wreckage of the destroyer, the Hydrangea aligned the bottom of the ship with its deck, and then made a synchronized movement. Several crew members in heavy overalls first fired the rope from the hatch at the bottom of the ship to the opposite side, and then dragged the rope to move over little by little. By the time their feet landed on the deck of the destroyer, it had been a full 20 minutes since they had been destroyed.

"You're doing useless work, and the chances of a survivor on this ship are slim to none."

Standing on the bilge, King Kong said to Zhao Jian on the side.

Generally, military ships rarely do full protection, and the high cost is one thing, which will also affect the protection of armor and waste tonnage. Therefore, the general warship only establishes a "safety cabin" in a small area, and the smaller the ship's safety cabin, the smaller the safety cabin, and the destroyer's safety cabin is even single, and the sailors can't even bend down when they get in.

Therefore, once the assimilation of the divine core was abruptly suspended, the sailors in many areas did not have time to run to the safety cabin for refuge.

"Do your best and obey the destiny of heaven! My education didn't include the phrase 'death or death'. ”

It took more than an hour for the search and rescue crews to search all the cabins that could be entered. This Trumanka-class destroyer, which was supposed to have a crew of 160 people, only 3 survivors finally had time to hide in the safety cabin, and the search and rescue personnel got them back with the cabin, and the piggybacker also took the ideal 2,000-ton god core. But just as they were about to leave, the Canalias-class heavy cruiser went and returned. Blocked the path of the Hydrangea and sent a strongly worded communication.

"Young Master, the other party is the Barricari of the National Army, asking us to hand over the survivors and the divine core."

"Reply to them, the divine core can be given, but the survivors cannot. For humanitarian reasons, I would send them to neutral countries. ”

"Young Master, won't such a reply anger anger them?"

"That's it, and it's going to be posted on public channels so that all the boats around it can hear it."

Zhao Jian knew very well that if he handed over these 3 people to the other party. Then they will be stripped naked and thrown into space in less than 5 minutes. Since the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, the two sides have gone back and forth, and each of the prisoners has captured some of them, and then they have chosen to kill them all with a very "tacit understanding". is so ruthless to his own people that even foreigners can't stand it!

The three survivors were two privates and a corporal. All of them are recruits who have just joined the army, and they are all under 20 years old this year. Both privates were the sons of fishermen. The corporal studied at the military academy for only one year. After the start of the war. The republican government first carried out a purge of the non-mutinous navy, and then the recruits were forced into service on warships.

Zhao Jian didn't think that the three of them would be big shots, but he didn't think that their death would have any impact on the war, and it was entirely out of a conscience and a necessary posture that he decided to save their lives.

After Zhao Jian's reply was sent, the other party was "silent" for a long time. The crew of the Hydrangea held their breath. Nervously waiting for the other party's reply. Some people felt that it was very inappropriate for Zhao Jian to do this, and he was somewhat presumptuous, but Zhao Jian didn't think so.

"Don't forget that we are Tang people! Even if it's just a civilian boat, it's going out at this moment. We also represent the face of the country. If you are inferior, you will be laughed at by people from other countries around you, and maybe even make those Spaniards suspicious. In case they had to board the ship to search, where would the more than 800 people in the cabin hide? ”

What Zhao Jian has to do now is to put on a tough posture that Tang people should have. They waited for 15 minutes, but the national army on the Barricari still didn't dare to do anything to them after all, obediently gave way to the Hydrangea, and even didn't want the destroyer's divine core, and everyone on the bridge suddenly had a sense of pride.

Four days later, Zhao's fleet arrived at Venus, and the three survivors were sent by him in a dinghy to a French passenger liner. The other party took the travel fee given by Zhao Jian and left with a thousand thanks, while Zhao Jian himself changed to the Pingbo loaded with assault rifles and left the large fleet to go to the territory controlled by the national army.

In low-earth orbit, the Pinnau encountered the German and Italian observation fleets, the Italian Count Garfo always aimed at Pinbo with its secondary guns, while the German De Fllinger was much calmer and did not look at them at all. The only purpose of these two fleets staying here is to "get in the way" and not let the Republican fleet run to Franco's head and.

After the Pingbo landed, he immediately identified himself to the defenders of the docks, but to his surprise, before he could apply to see Franco, the other party offered to invite him to the "Commander-in-Chief's Palace".

Seeing Franco again, Zhao Jian saw exhaustion from this person, but the sharpness and confidence in his eyes did not diminish at all. The other party was once the youngest brigadier general in Europe, and as a talented general, he naturally knew the disadvantages of his opponent's fierce offensive. That's why he kept shrinking the line of defense and using space to consume the enemy's living force.

"See you again, Mr. Zhao."

"It's a pleasure to see you again, General Franco."

"I heard that your fleet had a little friction with the Balearic near Stargate, and I apologize to you here, and I hope this will not affect the friendship between the two countries."

"You're serious, it's just a trivial matter."

"I'll talk about that polite word here first, I was going to send someone to Datang to find you in a few days, but I didn't expect you to take the initiative to come. I'd like to order some more assault rifles and ammunition in the same quantities as last time, and I don't know if you can get me some more heavy weapons, and we'll talk about the price. ”

Franco's words can be said to be completely as Zhao Jian expected, and even guessed the number of orders, and the reason why he only prepared 1,000 was completely to create a reason to run to Venus next time.

"General Franco, in fact, I came this time, I brought a batch of goods on my ship, I am still very confident in my products, you will become a repeat customer, this is completely in my expectation."

"Oh! How many did you bring? ”

"1,000 assault rifles and 5,000,000 rounds of ammunition, you can wait for me to send the other 1,000 rifles before settling the payment, I call this cash on delivery."

Anyway, the boss had already given Zhao Jian an order to "bet on both sides", and Zhao Jian didn't care whether the other party would default on the debt, and simply used "cash on delivery" to make a gesture of trusting Franco. The other party smiled with satisfaction after hearing this, but then his next sentence made Zhao Jian unable to laugh.

"Mr. Zhao, let me ask more, has my opponent also ordered?"

"General Franco, I don't understand what you mean."

"Okay, Mr. Zhao, I remember that there is a saying in the Tang Kingdom that 'Ming people don't do dark things', and although the intelligence agencies under my command can't be compared with your country's, they are not wine bags and rice bags. And if you think about it from another perspective, I actually understand your position as a businessman, and also the country behind you. ”

“……”

Although he had expected this situation for a long time, when Franco really saw through it, Zhao Jian still felt a little nervous. However, judging from Franco's emotional fluctuations, the other party did not have murderous intent towards him.

"It seems that the concealment of my actions needs to be strengthened."

"There are no impermeable walls in this world, and unless you don't, it's impossible not to show your handle. Mr. Zhao, you should feel very fortunate by now, because you have a powerful country behind you that neither I nor my allies can provoke, otherwise you would have been in a different place by now. I do need your help, but I value your sincerity more now. ”

"Then you can say it directly, how much caliber of 'sincerity' you want, I can help you ask."

"It's not a cannon, although I really lack that thing, I have a more urgent need."

"And what do you need?"

"I need a battleship!"

In today's world, the first-class naval powers are Datang, Great Britain and Laomei, the shipbuilding industry of these three countries is very developed, and ordinary countries simply cannot build capital ships, but they have the ability to mass produce them in batches. Someone once calculated that there are as many as 52 shipyards in Datang that have the ability to build large warships of more than 40,000 tons, although the vast majority of them are engaged in the construction of civilian ships, but once the war system is opened, the construction of battleships can be started immediately, and the speed of the riot army is absolutely world-class.

The biggest disadvantage of Franco's national army at present is that the strength of the space navy is not enough, and it is simply unable to compete head-on with the Republican fleet, and can only fight a "broken battle" with the other side. It had to be damaged all the time, and Franco didn't have enough shipyards and workers to carry out major repairs, and seeing the hull of the sisters Alfontso and Ganarias scarred, Franco was actually more anxious than anyone else.

Germany and Italy would certainly not allow their precious fleets to participate in the battle, and if the Republican fleet saw through this attack, they would retreat as soon as possible, so Franco needed to be able to obey his own fleet. He made it clear to Zhao Jian that it was to facilitate the negotiation of bigger business.

Franco's national army is in dire need of powerful warships, and that's exactly what Datang can provide! (To be continued......)

PS: Home appliances go to the countryside and trade in the old for the new!