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Chapter 13 Majuro Air Battle (1)

The sky above Chang'an City is cloudless, and it is another sunny and good weather.

Accompanied by a huge buzzing sound, a Boeing 247d passenger plane of Datang Airlines slowly landed on the runway.

Zhang Wei rushed to the airport early in the morning to welcome her boyfriend, which is Zhang Meng's nominal fiancée Han Qingxuan.

Although Soong Mei-ling repeatedly asked Zhang Meng to go to Nanjing in person to take Han Qingxuan back to the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Meng always refused in various ways, and eventually forced the National Government to send Han Qingxuan directly to the Tang Dynasty.

In this diplomatic game, Zhang Meng won the first round. But as Han Qingxuan arrived in Chang'an, Zhang Meng had no way out.

Zhang Wei was not in a good mood because before coming, Zhang Meng told her alone for a long time, telling her that if Zhang Xinhai insisted on holding this wedding, then Zhang Meng could only tell the truth to Han Qingxuan.

Zhang Meng can pretend to be Zhang Xinhai's son, which comes from his gratitude and repayment for Zhang Wei's life-saving grace. But he cannot pretend to be Han Qingxuan's husband. It is not only a deception and harm to Han Qingxuan's feelings, but also an unfair way to himself. Which husband is willing to his wife regard himself as someone else is a matter of principle.

Before, Zhang Meng could use various reasons to swear, thinking that as long as time goes by, the marriage will be over. However, in the end, Zhang Xinhai's insistence made Zhang Meng unable to delay any further, so he had to show off.

However, before the showdown, Zhang Meng hoped that Zhang Wei could come forward or persuade Zhang Xinhai or Han Qingxuan, she had to make a choice.

In the end, Zhang Wei chose to convince Han Qingxuan because she really didn't want her parents to know that their real son was dead. After all, Zhang Xinhai and his wife were over 70 years old, and this blow was hard to survive.

The hatch opened, and a girl who looked seventeen or eighteen years old wearing the unique school uniform of Jinling Girls' School ran down quickly.

When Zhang Wei saw that it was her boudoir Han Qingxuan, she happily greeted her.

The two have not met for more than three years, and they immediately hugged each other tightly, calling each other's names.

The few people who came down later did not see Han Qingxuan's family coming together except for Soong Mei-ling, whom Zhang Wei knew.

"Why are you? What about your parents and two brothers?"

Han Qingxuan curled her lips and said angrily: "Tsk, it's not because she wants to save face!"

Zhang Wei shook his head and smiled bitterly. He secretly asked in his heart that he was a stubborn old man of a good match. Zhang Xinhai was stubborn and wanted to save face, and the same was true for Han Tieshu.

Because Han Tieshu saw the Song family gaining power before, their Han family also rose and looked down on the Zhang family. Therefore, he wanted to regret the marriage again and again. This matter has spread in the upper class. It is no longer a secret. It is just that Han Tieshu did not break this window paper due to his face.

Unexpectedly, the Zhang family actually went to the Pacific to proclaim themselves king, but they also achieved remarkable achievements. Even the government had to establish a good relationship with the Zhang family. Under the pressure of Soong Mei-ling, Han Tieshu was already embarrassed and agreed not to regret the marriage. However, Zhang Meng refused to go to Nanjing repeatedly, which made Han Tieshu even more and more embarrassed.

Now under the pressure of the Song family, although Han Tieshu agreed to send Han Qingxuan to Chang'an to marry Zhang Meng, he refused to let him go to the Tang Dynasty. Even Han Qingxuan's mother and his two sons were not allowed to go to the Tang Dynasty.

Han Tieshu did this to show the Chinese people that he agreed not to regret the marriage due to pressure from the Song family, so that he could save some of his face.

Han Tieshu's scrupulousness even saw his daughter Han Qingxuan, so she said mercilessly in front of Zhang Wei that his father wanted to save face.

Zhang Wei was originally not satisfied with Han Tieshu's snobbish behavior, but just by just talking about the matter, she knew that Han Qingxuan was different from her father. Han Qingxuan has always been firmly opposed to Han Tieshu's regret of marriage, but she could not fight her father and was always watched. She even planned to sneak to the Tang Empire to find Zhang Meng several times, but she was arrested.

Han Qingxuan has been complaining to Zhang Wei in recent years and wrote letters to Zhang Meng. Unfortunately, Zhang Meng didn't read it at all. It was all Zhang Wei who secretly replied to Zhang Meng.

Now that Zhang Meng is about to showdown, Zhang Wei really regrets that she should have thought of this.

Looking at Han Qingxuan's innocent look, Zhang Wei felt a little worried.

"By the way, why didn't Brother A Meng pick me up? I haven't seen him for several years."

"Your brother A Meng is very busy. There happened to be an emergency military operation today, so he can't pick you up."

Han Qingxuan was immediately disappointed.

"It's almost a bride, why are you anxious? There's time to be together in the future." At this time, Soong Mei-ling heard Zhang Wei say that there was an emergency military operation and immediately came over. She asked again: "Has the Japanese Navy arrived?"

Zhang Wei nodded and said, "That's right! The Imperial fleet is about to go to the battlefield to fight the Japanese Navy. This battle is related to the life and death of the Tang Dynasty, so the eldest brother has to supervise the battle himself."

Han Qingxuan knew about Tang Ri's war. When she heard that Zhang Meng was going to supervise the war herself, she was immediately anxious and asked Zhang Wei to take her to see Zhang Meng immediately.

But Soong Mei-ling also wanted to know whether the strength of the Tang Dynasty Royal Navy could defeat the main force of the Japanese joint fleet, which meant the issue of cooperation between the National Government and the Tang Dynasty in the future. Therefore, she also wanted to go there.

Zhang Wei was still too young to stand Han Qingxuan's soft and hard work, so she nodded in agreement.

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Under the blue sea and blue sky, Longmen Harbor is sparkling.

Nearly a hundred warships of all sizes are densely arranged on both sides of the naval base dock.

These warships are painted in silver-gray colors, with hull numbers made of black rows of Arabic numerals on both sides of the bow. The blue eagle logo of the Tang Dynasty Royal Navy was sprayed on the side of the ship island, which was huge and eye-catching.

Trucks loaded with various weapons, ammunition and supplies were parked on the dock, and huge gantry cranes transported the containers on the truck to the deck of the battleship next to them. The officers and soldiers of each ship were busy but orderly, and they were working hard for the upcoming battle.

Zhang Meng stood on the base navigation tower, grabbed the handrail and looked into the distance, and saw the entire naval base.

Intelligence shows that the commander of the Japanese Joint Fleet, Kobayashi, did not implement the orders of the Japanese military command Kato, but continued to lead the main fleet of the joint fleet to march towards the Tang Empire.

In this way, Zhang Meng's strategic intention to destroy the main force of the Japanese joint fleet in one fell swoop became more difficult. After all, Kobayashi had two large aircraft carriers.

Of course, in theory, the two aircraft carriers Kobayashi built were no match for the four large aircraft carriers of the Tang army. Not only did the Tang army's aircraft carriers and the number of carrier-based aircraft were twice that of the Japanese army, but the combat performance of carrier-based aircraft was far higher than that of the Japanese aircraft carriers.

The problem Zhang Meng was worried about was that the training time of the Tang army pilot was much shorter than that of the Japanese aircraft carrier pilot. After all, the Japanese Navy Air Force began training in 1922, and now it has nearly ten years of flight experience and technology accumulation. The pilots of the Tang Dynasty Navy Air Force only had one to two years of flight time, and in comparison, there was a gap in the pilot's personal skills.

Although more than 300 outstanding pilots from the Northeast Air Force were added to the members of the Datang Naval Air Force, they had just begun to use Raptor Heavy Ship Warfare and Hellfire Heavy Ship to bombard the two new aircraft. At the same time, they had just joined the Tang army, and the cooperation between the original Tang army pilots still needs to be improved.

Zhang Mengsi fell into deep thought. Unconsciously, all ships of the Tang Dynasty's Royal Navy's First Aircraft Carrier Battle Group had completed all supplies.

"Your Highness, it's time to give a pre-war instructor!" Yang Yi interrupted Zhang Meng's thoughts softly.

Pre-war training, as the name suggests, is to encourage the soldiers of the entire army and improve morale before the war. For soldiers, training is very real, but in battle, soldiers have to believe that three-point luck plays a huge role. Because the shells on the battlefield do not have eyes, they will not blow up your official position because you train better than your companions. Therefore, boosting morale before the war has become a routine for every army.
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