More than a hundred first batch of American salvage ships began to sail out of the west coast and head towards Japan. The Yamato and other warships have been sank for a while, and this kind of salvage needs to be carried out as soon as possible.

Otherwise, the silt and sand on the seabed would make salvage more difficult. Fortunately, the National Defense Forces have not been idle during this period. On the one hand, they are constantly detecting the sinking position of the warships.

On the other hand, although the boat cannot be salvaged by a salvage boat, it is still possible to clean up some silt and sand.

"Uncle Chengzhang! You really found a good job for me..." But Tu Menghu said to Chen Honglie in front of him with a wry smile, and Chen Honglie kept bowing to Tu Menghu with a smile.

Zhang Xueliang, who was beside the tiger, was almost laughing. The few people were very familiar with each other, both from the Northeast Army. Chen Honglie was once a subordinate of Zhang Xueliang.

"Uncle Chengzhang, you really made things difficult for Meng Ben this time. Look at the Yamato, it has a displacement of 65,000 tons! After salvaging it, the project volume is absolutely not small."

But Zhang Xueliang smiled at Chen Honglie and said, "Even Americans say that this matter is not very sure. If it weren't for the water depth near Fukuoka Sea, they might have given up directly."

"Hey! Am I thinking about our National Defense Forces and Navy? Think about it, although the Yamato was sunk, it cannot be denied that it is the largest battleship in the world!"

But Chen Honglie slapped his thigh and said, "Hanqing! You don't know, I have been salivating about this battleship for a long time, and this battleship will be improved. The flagship in the fleet supporting aircraft carriers is still good... …”

"Even if we retire in the future, it will be our best spoil!" Chen Honglie said, pausing and continuing: "This opportunity is once a lifetime. It will be difficult to salvage it again in the future..."

There is no refutation to slaughter tigers. This is the case. Only during the battle formation will the country continue to invest in some large-scale projects. Salvage of the Yamato can greatly enhance the morale of the National Defense Forces and the reputation of China.

It was precisely because of this that the coalition government agreed to Chen Honglie's seemingly nonsense. Anyway, the Americans agreed to help, and with their assistance, they should be able to salvage them.

Of course, the salvage time given by the American engineers who surveyed the site is at least four months. This is the most optimistic estimate. If you encounter any special difficulties in the middle, the time will be extended indefinitely.

However, this is the best news for Chen Honglie.

"Hanqing. Meng Ben! This matter may be the last thing I did for the Navy..." Chen Honglie smiled bitterly and handed a document to Tu Menghu.

Tu Menghu took the report in shock, but saw that it said: Please dismiss the retirement report.

"Uncle Chengzhang, you are only sixty years old! Why do you want to retire? No. I won't approve this report!" Tu Menghu threw the report on the table and said in a deep voice.

Chen Honglie smiled openly and said, "Meng Ben! This is what you, Uncle Cheng Zhang, can do for you, the National Defense Forces, and our rising navy in the end..."

Chen Honglie said, with a satisfied smile on his face.

"As an old navy, I can watch my beloved troops step by step from nothing to something, from weak to strong. From being bullied to sweeping across the eight deserts, what is more proud than seeing all this in my own hands as a soldier to see it all done in my hands of?!"

"But we are old after all, I was born in 1882. I am sixty years old this year, and neither spirit nor energy can keep up with the speed of the troops..."

After a pause, Chen Honglie looked at Tu Mengben and said sincerely: "Mengben! Think about it, when I was admitted to the Japanese Naval School, I was only twenty-three years old and in my prime! And now Where? !I am already a drooping old man…”

"The knowledge I have learned can no longer keep up with the current era. Continuing to stay in the navy can only drag down the development of the navy. We should give up our position to those younger and more knowledgeable, More dynamic officers…”

Chen Honglie's words silenced the tiger. Indeed, with the development of war, new weapons, new tactics and strategies are constantly being updated.

The tactical strategies of the older generation, such as Chen Honglie, can no longer keep up with the times. Since the emergence of aircraft carriers, the updates of strategies and tactics have become ever-changing.

The General Staff of the National Defense Forces, the General Staff of the National Defense Forces Navy and other departments have replaced the former tactics in the Navy at the pace of updating combat training tasks almost every month.

These tactics and combat methods cannot be determined in just one or two sentences. They are all derived after a large number of practical reports, battlefield evaluations and tactical deductions.

Even if some problems arise in actual combat, as long as they are corrected, they will prove the practicality and reliability of these tactics.

Chen Honglie's resignation was not a whim. But after careful consideration, he has participated in several landing battles over the past period of time.

During these battles, he saw his shortcomings and the capabilities of the navy generals and captains in the active forces. In order to enable the navy to achieve better development, the navy commander-in-chief decided to leave the navy.

He and Tu Menghu hit the navy with one punch and one kick, and they would not be reluctant to leave just like this. That was a lie. Of course, Chen Honglie couldn't bear to leave, but he knew better.

For the growing National Defense Force Navy, Chen Honglie is already a burden. If he stays in the Navy for a long time, then this is the most unfavorable thing for the Navy's development.

For Chen Honglie, who had been in the navy for the rest of his life, this was undoubtedly an extremely painful decision. But he still resigned to Tu Menghu, because what he wanted to see was a stronger navy.

"Meng Ben... Since I became the commander-in-chief of this navy, I have not been able to sleep late every night. I often get awakened by nightmares, for fear that the navy will make the navy that we have finally developed will be doomed again... ”

Chen Honglie said, rubbing his forehead and sighed: "The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 left a deep impression on me. We were once the best navy in Asia. We were defeated by the Japanese attack. Every time we dreamed of returning to me at midnight, I was extremely disappointed. The fear…”

"Fortunately, we finally defeated Japan. Yes. We won..." Chen Honglie looked at Tu Menghu and Zhang Xueliang and said, "But what in the future?! How to ensure that we can continue to win?!"

Tu Menghu was silent. He knew why Chen Honglie insisted on retiring. He was setting a routine, which means that all generals who reached a certain age must retire.

Give his position to younger generals. As the founder of the National Defense Forces Navy, if he did this, then the successor would definitely not dare to retire beyond his age.

This is a way to continuously inject vitality and new blood into the entire National Defense Force Navy.

"I will think about it carefully. But for the time being, I don't want you to leave the army so soon..." Tu Menghu was silent for a while and said to Chen Honglie.

"Although the navy looks strong now, it is actually very weak. Especially in terms of heritage and training, we are not a little different from the old naval power."

"At this time, the Navy will need you to control it more. At least, it will ensure that the Navy is not anxious and can stabilize and move forward step by step. Instead of blindly pursuing high-end..."

Chen Honglie smiled and said to Tu Menghu, "Meng Ben! You don't have to worry about this. Although I left the Navy, Hou Fu and the others are still there. The Navy will be optimistic..."

"Hou Fu is younger than me, and has higher combat experience and knowledge than me. Relatively speaking, he is more suitable to serve as commander-in-chief of the National Defense Forces Navy..."

"As for me... I'm old, going home to have fun with my grandchildren is actually what I should do most..." Chen Honglie said, and said with emotion: "Your aunt has been blaming me for the past few years, not staying at home for the sake of the navy. ”

"I also think that when the Navy is about to leave, I will take time to accompany your aunt and take her around the world to run around Taishan, and go to West Lake to enjoy a rare and good day. …”

Chen Honglie had said this, what else could Tu Mengben say? He could only nod with a wry smile. Chen Honglie nodded with satisfaction, and then used the excuse that he wanted to patrol the navy and left first.

After he left, Tu Mengben and Zhang Xueliang looked at each other and fell into silence. The status between the two was far different. Zhang Xueliang was Tu Mengben's boss and eldest brother.

But now, Tu Mengben is Zhang Xueliang's boss. Even when Zhang Xueliang was in danger, Tu Menghu and Paoye were rescued by him. After that, Zhang Xueliang and Tu Mengben fell into a strange embarrassment.

The two of them don’t meet often, but they always ask Zhang Xueliang to come to their home for the Chinese New Year and holidays. They also come together with Zhang Xueliang’s old uncle Zhang Zuxiang.

Zhang Zuoxiang is now living a very free and easy life, and is traveling around the country as a special inspection envoy of the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Department of the United Government. He doesn't want to run away anymore, so he gives a report to the discipline inspection department at home.

Most of the time, the old guy said he was in supervision rather than travel. The two different mechanisms within the coalition government, as well as a complete promotion and retirement system, greatly guaranteed the lowest occurrence rate.

The most cases that occur in the year can even be counted by a single slap. And most of them are minor, and they only receive some benefits. They are far from reaching the level of millions or tens of millions in later generations.

These people were not well done, and those who should be dismissed were dismissed and those who should be tried were heard. Moreover, they were informed of the whole country, which made all officials silent. There was no way out. Being found out basically means being removed.

Even the accumulated pension was recovered. Those who were sentenced to punishment were difficult to find work due to this stain after they came out. Even if they did business, it would be difficult.

The most of the criminals and their families now choose to go to the overseas colonies of the National Defense Forces, such as Malay, the Philippines, Myanmar, etc., where they can at least make a living by themselves.

In China, even if they survive, it will become extremely difficult.

"Brother Six, the matter between you and Miss Fourth should have a result, right?" In this situation, Tu Mengben could only helplessly start with a woman.

The matter between Zhang Xueliang and Miss Zhao Si was very popular at the beginning. Fortunately, Zhang Xueliang's original wife Yu Fengzhi did not resist the matter, but instead treated Miss Zhao Si like a real sister.

Since Zhang Xueliang was rescued by Paoye, Yu Fengzhi and Zhang Xueliang returned to the three northeastern provinces to live. Zhao Si appeared as Zhang Xueliang's secretary.

This was what Zhang Xueliang asked. After all, Zhang Xueliang was really sorry for Yu Fengzhi when he thought about it. It would be fine if he was playing outside, but he would take it home.

This clearly slapped Yu Fengzhi, the official wife. Yu Fengzhi did not care about it, but instead kept asking about his well-being as usual. He also took care of Zhang Xueliang with Zhao Si.

This made Xiao Zhang very grateful. So he told Zhao Si: If you follow me, you can only be called a secretary to the outside world. And if you are inside, you can be called a servant lady. The wife of the main wife will always be Yu Fengzhi.

Zhao Si also agreed to this. So the three of them maintained this extremely strange relationship until today.

In terms of title, Tu Menghu would call Zhao Si "Zhao's servant" on formal occasions. But if it was a private gathering, for example, Zhang Xueliang brought Zhao Si to Tu Mengben's family banquet.

Then at the banquet, Tu Mengben would call Zhao Si "Little Sister-in-law". Yu Fengzhi's name has always been "Six Sister-in-law".

"What else can you do?! Just drag it! You don't know that you are the sixth brother, I am. I never know how to deal with such things. If I understand, I won't be like this..."

When Zhang Xueliang heard Tu Menghu's question, he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Your sixth sister-in-law is informed and reasonable. If you change someone, you will not have a big fuss!"

"To be honest, your father, my uncle, have been asking me for trouble for this matter. I am almost annoyed..."

Zhang Xueliang was very depressed. After his father passed away, Pao Ye thought he had the responsibility to control the overbearing Zhang Xueliang. First, he grabbed Zhang Xueliang out to practice boxing. Secondly, he was forbidden to go to occasions of romance and romance at will.

Of course, Mr. Pao gave Zhang Xueliang enough for the sake of face. He would never scold him in front of others, or his fault was not. But when he got home, Mr. Pao would definitely come to the door and go to Xiao Zhang who was in trouble in the study.

Clean up.

"I guess, if my old man didn't deal with you like this, then my sister-in-law would probably have had several more people..." Tu Mengben laughed. He knew Zhang Xueliang's fault very well.

In the early years, Qi Mudeng and others liked to visit the Eight Great Hutongs, and they all learned this from Xiao Zhang. When Xiao Zhang was not old, he learned to visit the kilns.

"Hey! Who said no?! I understand your sixth brother. Your father is for my own good..." Zhang Xueliang said with a bitter face, "But he is too strict with him..."

"But Brother Six. I have to tell you a serious one. This time I come to Japan, you can't leave any kind of things here, otherwise my father will definitely break your legs!" Tu Menghu smiled for a while and looked at him.

Zhang Xueliang said solemnly: "Don't forget, uncle died at the hands of the Japanese. If you have a Japanese son or daughter, my father and Uncle Zuoxiang will definitely kill you!"

When Zhang Xueliang heard this, his face turned solemn.

"Although your sixth brother bastard, he is not as good as the bastard. I still know what I can't talk about."

After saying this, Zhang Xueliang squinted at Tu Mengben and said, "But, the matter in Japan has been dealt with this time. You should let me go to the Russians' land, right?!"

"Damn it! When I wanted to go to the Soviet Union for a visit, the Russians refused! What's his attitude?!" Zhang Xueliang was angry that he applied to go to the Soviet Union when he was inspecting abroad.

"This time, your sixth brother said that you had to go to the Soviet Union for any visit. I had to go over with justification and see what these Russians could do to me!"

Tu Menghu laughed and immediately agreed to Zhang Xueliang's request.

"Actually, the time is almost over. After the matters in Japan are handled, just leave some troops to serve as garrisons. All other things need to be withdrawn from the country and prepare for war against Germany."

As he said that, Tu Mengben pondered for a while and said to Zhang Xueliang: "This time, the task about you will be very difficult. We and Britain and the United States have discussed the strategy of bypassing Moscow's direct attack on Europe..."

"But the main premise is that we need a route to Europe." After a pause, the tiger said: "The biggest problem now is that the route on the Atlantic Ocean is not safe. The United States dare not risk being sunk by the German fleet.

Risks cross the Atlantic Ocean to carry out landing war against Britain…”

"So, they proposed to let our troops cross the Indian Ocean and gather in Egypt. After training and adaptation, Greece launched a landing war on the European land..."

Zhang Xueliang was stunned when he heard this, and then walked to the map and pulled it twice. An enlarged version of the world map was revealed. Looking at the map, Zhang Xueliang cursed.

"Damn it! Are these white-skinned guys crazy?! Even if we go to Türkiye, the shortest attack range to Greece will be more than 200 kilometers. Do these idiots want us to die?!"

Tu Menghu smiled bitterly and said, "So, this action is indeed difficult. The difficulties you face are also very big, and the difficulties that allies need to face will be more..."

"It is definitely fake to say that there are so many troops that don't alarm the Germans. If you hide the operational troops well, it will be a huge problem. Next, the battle with a range of hundreds of kilometers is something that everyone has never experienced..."

"So those white-skinned pigs are planning to let us take risks, right?" Zhang Xueliang's face looked ugly, while Tu Menghu didn't say anything.

"In fact, whether they ask or not, our army will go this time!" After a long time, Tu Menghu said in a deep voice: "In Europe, there are some things that we must have a large number of troops to save...

”

"As long as those things are taken back to the country, we will ensure that within decades or even hundreds of years, no one dares to set foot on our territory!" (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster
Chapter completed!