readx; The winter of 1943 was much calmer for China than in previous years, since the German attack on Poland, the world war has lasted for many years, and people have slowly turned from surprise and curiosity to ignorance of the wars that broke out around the world, and finally even took a look at the news of the large-scale winter counteroffensive launched by Soviet Russia against the German army in the newspaper, and then turned the pages of the newspaper casually, and turned his eyes on other domestic news and even some entertainment gossip. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Look, Zhou everyone's new movie is about to be released again, and this time I have to take out a few corners to support the scene!" The middle-aged man with a melon skin hat sat in the teahouse, crossed Erlang's legs, and there was a stack of peanuts and a half-cooled tea on the table.

A medium-light man in a formal shirt next to him saw the newspaper in the hand of the man in the robe with several military exercise titles, and immediately took two steps curiously: "This newspaper is talking about military exercises?" ”

The man in the robe used a pair of withered fingers to hold a peanut and threw it into his mouth, chewed it twice before turning the newspaper over: "Oh, you said this, isn't it, this Navy exercises every year, but this time I heard that the president and his old man will also personally inspect the Navy!" ”

"The president personally inspected it, I'm afraid it's a small scale!"

"No, I heard that not only the domestic fleet, but also the Third Fleet in the Indian Ocean have sent ships back!" The man in the melon skin hat seemed to regard himself as the chief of the Admiralty, and his words were full of pride.

The 1943 annual naval exercises were held later than in previous years, and according to normal times, the annual naval exercises were usually held in the autumn, but this year's annual exercises were postponed for several months, and they were not carried out until the depths of winter, and if the time was postponed again, it was estimated that it would have been 1944.

The reason why the annual exercise was postponed until now is that the annual naval exercise in 1943 was larger than any previous one.

"This exercise is mainly focused on the confrontation between the First Fleet and the Second Fleet, and the Third Fleet will send a part of its ships to form a support fleet to cooperate with the First Fleet in combat!" Chen Shaokuan stood in front of Chen Jingyun, as head of the Naval Operations Department, Chen Shaokuan was also the person in charge of this annual exercise.

"The scale of this exercise is the largest in the history of our navy, and the ships participating in the exercise will include 12 aircraft carriers, two battleships, and more than 100 auxiliary ships, as well as dozens of other support vessels!" Chen Shaokuan continued: "Another part of the shore-based aviation and marine units will also participate! ”

"Well, the scale of this exercise is a bit large, and the exercise headquarters must do a good job of relevant safety work! Don't be overlooked! Chen Jingyun walked as he spoke: "It's not too early now, and it's not good to make the people below wait too long in the winter!" ”

Chen Jingyun did not want to watch the whole exercise, in fact, the naval exercise will last a relatively long time, and it will not be concluded in three to five days. The main reason why Chen Jingyun came to Shanghai today was to inspect the naval fleet before the exercise.

Chen Jingyun said so, and Chen Shaokuan over there also said: "Yes!" ”

And as Chen Jingyun and Chen Shaokuan walked out, many generals in the hall also turned their eyes together, Chen Jingyun looked at such a large group of admirals in the hall, and nodded slightly: "Everyone is almost together, then let's go!" ”

After the words fell, naturally there were many staff members who prepared their own, and a large group of naval generals with generals on their shoulders walked out of the Shanghai Naval Base Command one after another, and several important naval generals such as Chen Shaokuan and Wen Tinghe accompanied Chen Jingyun to the convoy, and after a while, the convoy composed of dozens of black bulletproof official cars produced by the Fuhang Automobile Company left the base headquarters and then sailed to the dock of the military port.

Colorful flags were already fluttering on the dock, and many naval soldiers and officers in military uniforms were already waiting early.

The Shanghai Navy Headquarters is not far from the wharf, the convoy soon arrived at the wharf, on the wharf, wearing a full set of admiral dresses, hanging the red dragon golden spike command knife personally awarded by Chen Jingyun on his waist, wearing five medals on his chest, Guan Shijie saw the convoy arrived, took a deep breath and walked over, the medals on his chest were shining, in addition to the three battle commemorative medals, the most conspicuous was nothing more than the 'red and gold double sword medal'.

The Red and Gold Double Sword Medal is a high-level military medal that China only began to implement in 1939, and all along, China's medals are very few, and the other participating countries have dozens of medals in the Caspian Navy, Army and Air Force, but China has always maintained a very small number of three, the first is the Five-Color Star Medal, which is also the most awarded medal in China's three armed forces, specifically for awarding wounded soldiers on the battlefield. The second is the Battle Commemorative Medal, which is generally awarded to soldiers and soldiers who participated in large-scale battles with a unique surname, but this kind of campaign commemorative medal is generally limited to battles with great influence, such as the Qingdao Campaign, the Lushun Campaign, the Pyongyang Campaign, the Wonsan Campaign, etc., the naval side of the East China Sea naval battle in the twenties, and the Sasebo naval and air battle in the early thirties.

In fact, these two are not real combat merit medals, and among the three armed forces in China, there is only one kind of combat merit medal, that is, the Double Sword Medal. Previously, the Order of the Two Swords was divided into four classes: the Gold Double Sword Medal of the First Class, the Silver Double Sword Medal of the Second Class and awarded only to officers, the Bronze Double Sword Medal of the Third Class, and the Order of the Blue Star of the Fourth Class and limited to soldiers.

There are few types of combat merit medals, and it is relatively difficult to obtain, so far, in the three armies of China's navy, land and air force, the gold and silver double sword medals are not to mention, these two medals and ordinary soldiers basically have no chance, take the bronze double sword medal with the most representative surname as an example, if you want to get this medal, you must have the influence of deciding the surname of a certain battle, that is, because you can win this battle, so that you can get this bronze double sword medal, of course, the specific requirements of people of different military ranks are not the same, An ordinary captain who annihilates a company of enemy troops, breaks through the defensive line of the enemy's regimental troops, and creates an opportunity for the superior troops to attack, then has the opportunity to obtain such a bronze double sword medal, and for the officer, it can only be obtained by exerting a decisive influence in a division-scale battle. As for the rank of general, those people are basically going for the Silver Double Sword Medal, and the difficulty is even greater.

It is precisely because the difficulty of obtaining the military merit medal is too great that Chen Jingyun does not want to fight a battle and the medals cannot be issued, so after entering the late thirties, the State Military Commission relaxed the difficulty of obtaining the existing military merit medals, and at the same time added two high-level medals, namely the Red and Gold Double Sword Medal of the High Medal and the Special Diamond Double Sword Medal, which will be awarded to soldiers who have made great contributions to the country and the nation. At present, no one has been able to obtain the Diamond Double Sword Medal of the special class, just like the rank of marshal, although there is, but it has never been awarded, which Chen Jingyun is preparing to leave for the use in the war.

So at the moment, the highest-ranking medal of the real solution is the Red and Gold Order of the Two Swords, which is based on gold and has a relief of two swords crossed in the middle, but there is a ruby in the middle of the two swords. The Diamond Medal of the Two Swords is based on gold, and the relief of the two swords is set with a huge diamond.

Even if it is the Red and Gold Double Sword Medal, not many have really been awarded, and only more than 20 have been awarded so far, and the Red and Gold Double Sword Medal is awarded to all soldiers who have made great contributions to the national defense of the country and the nation while making outstanding military achievements. For example, Sa Zhenbing and Cheng Biguang, who have retired, in recognition of their efforts in rebuilding the navy, specially awarded them the Red and Gold Double Sword Medal. The reason why Guan Shijie won the Red and Gold Double Sword Medal in the Navy is not that he led the troops to win many battles, in fact, in the two battles before and after, it was Sa Zhenbing and Cheng Biguang who led the navy, and Guan Shijie could only be regarded as a second-echelon general in the navy at that time.

There is only one reason why Guan Shijie won the Red and Gold Double Sword Medal, that is, Guan Shijie single-handedly established the world's largest naval aviation.

Perhaps Guan Shijie is not the most outstanding naval aviation expert in the Chinese Navy, and he is not even as good as Chen Shaokuan or Liao Hui in command of the air force. To tell the truth, he himself has retired from the post of actual commander since the Second Sino-Chinese Naval War. However, his position in the navy is that of an aviation school, and he has worked hard for the development of China's naval aviation for many years.

Under his auspices, the Chinese Navy established a complete set of naval aviation operational concepts, and the mature Chinese naval aviation model has been successively studied by various countries in the 20s, and today, in the 40s, the naval aviation of various countries are more or less learning some of the operational modes of the Chinese naval aviation. In terms of hardware development, the United States has been more affected, and the Essex-class aircraft carrier is almost a copy of the Chinese Navy's Qingshan-class aircraft carrier in appearance, with similar tonnage, similar appearance, and somewhat similar overall design. Of course, the specific design inside, such as the layout of the hangar and the arrangement of the elevator, is not as good, and the specific design of the interior is even less similar, but these outsiders don't know, they only know that the two aircraft carriers are very similar on the surface.

With the support of Chen Jingyun, Guan Shijie can be said to have single-handedly founded the Chinese Naval Aviation, the world's largest naval aviation unit, and with such meritorious achievements, he was naturally awarded the Red and Gold Double Sword Medal by Chen Jingyun.

Although he is not young, Guan Shijie still walked in great strides, and walked in front of Chen Jingyun, who had just gotten off the car: "Chairman, the parade fleet is fully prepared, please review it!" ”