Chapter 1755 Blocking Malacca

In Hanoi, almost at the same time when Gu Lianyun and Guo Muyi were talking about Ouyang Yun, the latter was sitting on a chair and quietly watching a new confidential telegram from Chen Shichang with a code book.

Guo Muyi's guess is very accurate.At this time, Ouyang Yun really had the idea of ​​evacuating Chen Shichang and his fleet from the United States.In fact, he had been thinking about it since the beginning of 1941.

Regarding the Pearl Harbor incident, Ouyang Yun's mood is quite complicated.Originally, he hoped that Japan could severely damage or even wipe out the US Pacific Fleet, because only then would China have the opportunity to become the absolute protagonist in the Asian battlefield of World War II.However, after learning that the Japanese battleships Yamato and Wuwei had been transformed into aircraft carriers, he worried that if the US Pacific Fleet was completely destroyed, it would lose its naval power that could restrain the Japanese. Pushed to the foreground prematurely—although he was very much looking forward to a decisive battle at sea instead of the United States and Japan, but as far as the current training situation of Chen Shichang and the others was concerned, he didn't have any confidence at all.

It is not easy to build an aircraft carrier fleet from scratch. After the formation of the Yandi aircraft carrier fleet, Chen Shichang sent back no less than ten secret messages.What made Ouyang Yun very worried was that almost every telegram contained a report on training casualties, so much so that he would raise his heart every time he opened the secret telegram, for fear that there would be a number that he could not bear.

Casualties mainly occurred in HNA.Although retired U.S. Navy officers were there to help with the training, it was the first time for all the students to come into contact with them, so some strange casualties occurred.As for the crash, it happens almost every large-scale training.

Ouyang Yun originally wanted to wait for the Yandi aircraft carrier fleet to fully form its combat capability before letting them leave the United States, but as the haze of the war in the Pacific Ocean became lower and lower, he didn't dare to take risks and decided to withdraw them first.

"It's a good choice to withdraw to Karachi, but before that, we must first find a way to seal off the way for the Japanese to go west into the Indian Ocean - mines?" Ouyang Yun was thinking about blocking the Strait of Malacca, and Pan Meiren was holding another telegram walked in. "Sister is here," she said, handing him the telegram.

Ouyang Yun opened it with an "oh" sound, then turned the code book to the corresponding page number, and read it carefully.Seeing that the teacup in front of him was empty, Pan Meiren took it to continue drinking water, and when she turned around, she found that his lips were tightly pursed and anger appeared on his face.She put down the teacup and asked, "Is there any bad news?"

Ouyang Yun slapped the telegram on the table heavily, and said: "The Jews are getting more and more outrageous." The next moment, he picked up a pen and dragged it across the notepad, and wrote two paragraphs in a flying style and handed it to her: "The above send Give it to Gu Lianyun, and send it to Chen Shichang!"

Pan Meiren took a glance, nodded and walked out.

Half an hour later, Gu Lianyun and Guo Muyi saw the secret telegram sent to them. The two of them translated the telegram and read it one after another. Guo Muyi said: "The commander-in-chief is angry! I hope the Jews know each other."

Gu Lianyun sealed the telegram and said, "Let's see what Hull will say tomorrow."

The next day, when the two parties cooperated again on the specific terms of the cooperation agreement, when Gu Lianyun proposed the request of the Xuebing Army to add the issue of the Jewish aircraft carrier to the hidden terms, Hull First stunned, then laughed.

One thing Gu Lianyun and the others didn’t know was that the reason why the Zionist Organization backtracked on the issue of the aircraft carrier and failed to fulfill its promise was, of course, that it was influenced by the Guangzhou Jewish Chamber of Commerce, but the biggest reason was the attitude of the US government. .It turned out that after the Japanese-Western expedition fleet invaded Southeast Asia, the U.S. Navy felt the urgency of the war. Eager to strengthen their strength, they also took a fancy to the Jewish aircraft carrier and offered to the Zionist Organization to buy it at a high price.

The price offered by the U.S. Navy is very attractive, so the Zionist Organization intends to sell one and keep another for itself. Therefore, if the Jews are angry, the US government must come forward to settle it.

Hull participated in the operation of this matter. At that time, he felt that it was meaningless for the Zionist Organization to retain an aircraft carrier fleet. At this time, he had an idea-since the Jews and the Cadet Army had already agreed, they should be divided up. Forget these two aircraft carriers.Not only that, but in view of the fact that the strength of the U.S. Navy is far greater than that of the Xuebing Army Navy, he went further and thought: If the two sides can establish a joint command in wartime, then wouldn’t the U.S. Navy suddenly have three more aircraft carrier fleets? (At this time, the Americans don't know that Britain has leased Karachi's "Vengeance-class" aircraft carrier to the cadet army)?
"No problem at all!" Hull promised on the spot, and watched with a smile as the recorder added this item to the hidden clause.

At 11:30 noon that day, Hull represented the U.S. government and Gu Lianyun represented the Xuebing Army. The two sides signed the cooperation agreement, and then held a small press conference to announce it.

Two days later, Hull and Gu Lianyun visited the secret headquarters of the Zionist Organization together. After about two hours of verbal confrontation, the Jews were defeated. The fleet was handed over to the US government and the cadet army respectively.

On the third day, after receiving the notification, Chen Shichang immediately took about two thousand students to take over the fleet that belonged to them, and then spent two days sailing to the waters where the Yandi aircraft carrier fleet was located, and began intense adaptive training.

When Chen Shichang and the others were making active preparations for returning to Asia, Ouyang Yun in Hanoi ushered in a piece of good news—Ambers and Degu coincided, and more than 2000 French naval officers and soldiers in the Far East Fleet voluntarily joined the British Z Everyone else outside the fleet declined Wavell's and Phillips' invitations to come to Hanoi.

For this matter, Wavell sent a telegram to Ouyang Yun, explaining Degu's motive for coming to Hanoi last time in "kindness", reminding him to be careful of the group of French people led by Degu.

After reading the telegram, Ouyang Yun laughed loudly and said to Zhang Liang beside him: "This Wavell is an interesting person, but I don't know what he will do when he sees a Frenchman who appears as a student volunteer in the future." expression?"

After Zhang Liang's injury was almost healed, Ouyang Yun promoted him to be Liu Kui's deputy.Since Liu Kui escorted a batch of sea mines urgently transported from Haikou by fighter plane to Chittagong the day before yesterday, he has been responsible for all the security work of the general headquarters during this period.

Zhang Liang knew about Degu's visit to Hanoi last time, and also knew that the British were involved in it, so he smiled and said, "Will the old British man be ashamed?"

Ouyang Yun smiled and did not continue this topic, and ordered: "Go and tell Secretary Pan, let her reply to the old British man in this way - I am very grateful for his 'kind' reminder, and will definitely take good care of the French. The work of laying torpedoes in the Strait of Malacca is intensified, and if there are not enough mines, we are willing to provide another batch for free!"

(End of this chapter)

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