Chapter 566 A telegram!

"Mom, get on the boat."

"Brother, my parents will leave it to you."

"Brother, don't worry." After the elder brother's eyes were red and helped his elderly parents get on the boat, he turned around and looked at his brother carefully, as if he wanted to engrave him deep in his brain. After a long time, he patted his shoulder: "Don't forget to write to your home."

"Well, brother, don't worry, when I come back, I may be an officer."

"Ha ha." The elder brother wiped the corners of his eyes, looked at the place where he had lived for decades from a distance, sighed deeply, and watched his younger brother get on another ship to Luzon before he got back to the passenger ship to his hometown in Guangzhou.

On the passenger ship, the two old men and their daughter-in-law chatted without a word. The children were playing and did not know what had happened. When they saw that only the eldest son came back alone, the corners of the old man's eyes were hazy and said, "Did Huzi go to Lu Song to join the army?"

"Dad, how do you know?" The elder brother looked at his father and didn't know how to continue.

"Don't be confused as your father. Although I can't read, I also heard from my neighbors a few days ago that the emperor is already conscripting soldiers and horses from all over the world to fight against foreign enemies!" The father wiped his tears and nodded with a smile: "To protect the family and the country is the future of young people. Huzi is right, just."

The old father looked at Changi Port, which is getting farther and farther away from the porthole, and sighed, "Oh, it's only been a few days, and I don't know when I will come back."

"Father, don't worry, our Xinhua is now in full of national strength, the emperor is talented, and the court is even more fierce. What's more, the naval ship is in Luzon, so we can come back here sooner or later!"

"Yes, yes."

The old father looked at the gradually blurred harbor, and finally nodded and sat back in his seat.

With Xinhua's transition to a full-scale wartime system, the Prime Minister's Office and the military began to recruit reserves. War is no longer a distant term, but has come to everyone.

Singapore is a strategic place where Chinese gather, and the prosperous city has become an empty city, because everyone knows that this is a place that the army must occupy. What's more, the emperor said that he asked for evacuation, so the Chinese left here one after another, but this is also the last fleet. More Chinese have been along the narrow inland. Enter Siam for temporary asylum.

Western Australia, Luzon, Borneo, and even the sparsely populated provinces of Siberia, as long as the dragon flag is planted, they have all begun to enter the war preparation system.

The story of the navy's fierce counterattack moved countless Chinese people under the rendering of literati and journalists. The day after almost reporting by newspapers and new-style radio broadcasts, the recruitment station was almost full.

When a large country with a population of nearly 500 million entered the wartime mobilization mechanism, the power that broke out was unimaginable. According to statistics, on the fifth day after Long Guozhang's speech to reporters, the first batch of millions of recruits had been recruited, and the first batch of 300,000 reserve soldiers who had usually received primary training were After getting the weapons, he began to gather in various places for two months of pre-war training.

Standing on the platform of Chengdu Railway Station, Li Mo can feel the changes in this country more.

In front of the column, the elders shed tears on their cheeks and said goodbye to the children who had just put on their military uniforms. The elderly mother secretly stuffed a pair of insoles and eggs into their bags. The father and brothers suppressed their tears and comforted the soldiers with a smile to let them serve the country at ease, saying that they would wait for the day of triumph.

The simple faces made Li Mo's heart seem to be blocked by something. He looked at the tears and looked at the lover who hugged and said goodbye. Suddenly, he understood what kind of nation it was.

This country, this nation, has never been afraid of war, not because of how powerful they are, but because of the almost uninterrupted war that has lasted for thousands of years has made everyone no longer afraid. They are usually honest farmers and workers, but when the country is in danger, even the powerless literati will Stand up and scold the foreign invaders!

After Yashan, tens of thousands of citizens were martyred. How tragic it is!

At this moment, he understood how important the guidance of the political axe was. Qin Huang and Han Wu were not so powerful themselves, but planted iron blood and the spirit of outward expansion in this land!

Will be incompetent and cowardly; if the country is incompetent, the people will be dispersed.

What I have brought to this nation is not a powerful force, but the outward heart that has been gradually awakened!

History has fork in the way because of himself. The land of China has not fallen into an endless civil war. It may be a little exaggerated to say that there will be no new China without himself, but in the face of so many young people who follow him, are pious and fanatical, but want to be sent to the battlefield by himself, he still feels a little sad.

Many people in the outside world regard themselves as war maniacs, and Europe has long been hated as arsonists, but if there is world peace, who is willing to choose this path?

"Mr. Li, now you know why I can't recall Zhen'er."

Li Enfu was also deeply moved by the spectacular and tearful head in front of him. He nodded vigorously. When the whole country was mobilized, if the emperor recalled the prince from the front line for fear of danger, it would definitely seriously demoralize the soldiers and the prestige of the royal family would plummet.

But when I think of the information about the U.S. Fleet A and the British E Fleet I got before getting off the bus, as well as the situation in the Atlantic Ocean at this moment, everyone is in a cold sweat for the 31st Fleet.

Even the war on the Southeast Peninsula seems to have become insignificant, because everyone knows that it only needs to continue to invest troops. In addition, Siam has become an ally. The Southeast Peninsula is already an isolated island, and Britain and France can't stay there in the absence of a civilian foundation.

"Go to the Aviation Research Institute." Li Mo took a deep breath and got into the car.

He came to Chengdu this time because of the problem of ship-based attack aircraft. As Xinhua began to mobilize, the curtain of the war finally opened in an all-round way, and more than half of the world would slowly be shrouded in war. The only opponent, the United States, finally began to exert its strength at an unfavorable start and suffered heavy losses. It was received by 20 cargo ships and tens of thousands of soldiers. With the stimulation of the death of soldiers and sailors, Wilson used national emotions to completely suppress all isolated ideas.

This country with the most industrial capacity finally began to break out. Not only did it restart the eight New Mexico-class battleships that had been suspended due to the emergence of the Guam class, but the subsequent Tennessee plan was also put on track.

And before the construction of the eight Northampton-class heavy cruisers was completed, another eight New Orleans-class heavy cruisers with modified armored protection were also included in the start-up plan, and more light cruisers and destroyer orders were distributed to the shipyard.

During this period, the most surprising thing is probably the news that Clarks died. No one expected that he had survived on an isolated island for more than half a month and was rescued by an Australian cruiser and returned to Sydney.

According to reliable information, he has sorted out a large amount of combat information of Xinhua's navy during this period and sent it back to China by telegram. The most important thing is to find that monoplanes and Xinhua may have large take-off and landing subgrade reconnaissance aircraft.

His description has been valued by the U.S. Navy. After all, he is the highest surviving officer, so the United States also began to look for a plan to give up the water carrier, and bought two old Atlantic cruise ships three days ago, preparing to convert it into an aircraft carrier similar to the British Campania.

Not counting the changes and ideas brought back by itself, the Campania, which was officially served in the British Navy not long ago, is the first real aircraft carrier in the world, but its deck is installed in the bow, only more than 60 meters long, which is very different from Xinhua's direct deck.

But this also reminds everyone that Xinhua is almost the weather vane of warship design, so as long as its aircraft carrier is exposed, it will definitely come. In addition, the current threshold of aircraft carrier technology is very low, so carrier aircraft has become the key.

The problem of overweight of the carrier-based attack aircraft was indeed unexpected before. It is not easy to take off at a distance of less than 200 meters. More importantly, he is not an expert of this kind at all. In his previous life, he never thought that he would encounter such a problem one day. In addition, Gao Daquan's ideas abandoned the biplane from the beginning and turned to all The consequences of the all-metal structure single-wing aircraft began to appear.

Although he urgently launched the backup plan and ordered 200 biplanes with enhanced horsepower, the biplanes were never a solution. There were problems with maneuvers, landing and body structure, so he came to the Aviation Design Institute again to supervise and solve them in person, because he knew better than anyone that the main battlefield for the next hundred years was the sky. Empty, how to establish an advantage in this regard as soon as possible and continue to expand it is something you need to think about.

But sitting in the car, he had no other mind at the thought of the two interception fleets.

Because it is necessary to maintain radio silence, the 31st Fleet will not take the initiative to send a contact signal unless there are special circumstances, so no one can know where the 31st Fleet is at this time except themselves. Although the news of the British and American Fleet has been sent to them before, fuel, supplies, ammunition and environment, etc. The problem will seriously test these young people.

Originally, the general ginseng wanted to make trouble with the Germans. In fact, the German navy did do it. It dispatched four battlecruisers, and was led by Hipel, who had stayed in Xinhua for several years and even participated in the naval battle of Westbil Island, tried to break through the North Sea defense line, but in the end, he was seriously injured by a battle patrol by the tenacious British. The cost of sinking the three cruisers was blocked again.

It's a pity that if even a German war patrol rushed out of the North Sea and entered the Atlantic Ocean at that time, the pressure of the 31st Fleet would be at least half less.

When the news came back and the General Staff sighed, many people, including Chen Ping, couldn't figure out. According to Wang Shizhen's words, this plan should be extremely confidential. A few days before the war, they also did a lot of cover-up work. How could the British suddenly appear on the channel? And it was three Lion-class battlecruisers blocking the door.

Li Mo couldn't figure it out at first. He was not like what others thought was the incompetent of the German navy. Delan had confirmed that the combat effectiveness of the German navy at this time was very considerable, and the equipment was comparable to that of Britain, even in many places. If it hadn't been for the extremely bad one in the North Sea. In the environment, Germany will not do much worse than the Xinhua Navy.

It was not until he later searched his intestines that he remembered that he had read it in an article analyzing the Battle of Tehran in his previous life. In August 1914, after Russia sank the German light cruiser Magdeburg at the mouth of the Gulf of Finland, divers accidentally found a code book and flag manual of the German navy in the wreckage of the German [***] ship. And provide it to Britain, so the British Admiralty at this time has actually deciphered the radio code of the German navy!

This can explain why the raid failed.

It's a pity that the German Navy's surface fleet can't provide support. I don't know if Xiuyan has received any news about the two interception fleets sent to him at this moment? And where will they be now?"

Just when Li Mo always felt that something was wrong, he saw the communication car suddenly pass in front of the window, and then he saw the communication officer rushing to the window.

Du Dazhuang, who was sitting in the co-pilot's seat, held the pistol warily, rolled down the window and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Report, I just received a telegram from the 31st Fleet."

"31 Fleet?!"

Hearing this number, Li Mo suddenly rushed out of the car regardless of the street, grabbed the telegram and looked at it carefully.

The telegram is very simple. It only says that the 31st Fleet has crossed the Atlantic Ocean and arrived on the coast of German West Africa. On the way, it also sank three cargo ships from South Africa to the United Kingdom again. Moreover, they also saw the German West African Army. At present, the morale of the fleet is high and it is continuing to go north.

"Are you sure this was sent by the 31st Fleet?" Although it is indeed a happy thing to finally get the news of the 31st Fleet after a month, I can't help but worry about the thought that they might expose the target by turning on the telegram.

"Your Majesty, don't worry, this is not the signal of the 31st Fleet, but after they left, they let the German West African garrison contact the submarines in the Atlantic Ocean through the radio, which was forwarded to us by the submarine to the German Admiralty, but there is a secret language used by the 31st Fleet on it."

"This boy really has a set." Li Enfu was relieved to hear that the telegram was not sent by the 31st Fleet himself, but before he finished laughing, he saw that Li Mo's face suddenly changed.

"Say it again, how did you send it back?"

Li Mo's sudden shouting not only shocked Li Enfu and Du Dazhuang, but also the guards around them looked back one after another. The correspondent even swallowed. He didn't understand why the emperor suddenly did this. He recounted: "It was forwarded by the German submarine."

"Damn it!" Before the communication officer finished speaking, Li Mo kicked the car beside him fiercely and shouted, "Order Chen Ping, no matter what he uses, immediately contact the 31st Fleet and let Li Xiuyan be careful of the sudden surprise attack of the British and American interception fleet!"

"Order the supply fleets of Cuba and Colombia to set out immediately and search for the 31st Fleet with all their strength!"

"No matter what method you use, you must contact!"

"Yes!"

Although the communications officer did not understand why Li Mo was like this, he also knew that the things that could make the emperor anxious must be very small, and he hurried to the last communication car of the convoy.

"Your Majesty, what's wrong with you? Is it a telegram?

"There is no problem with the telegram, but there is something wrong with the radio password of the German navy!" Li Mo's face turned blue and hammered the car again. Li Xiuyan had been very careful, but the problem was!

Damn Russians gave the German code book to Britain!

(to be continued)