Zhang Yunfei stayed in the Tianjin Shipyard for several hours, and even looked at the 10,000-ton hydraulic press dismantled from Japan. The more he looked, the happier he felt. With the key equipment such as the 10,000-ton hydraulic press, the development process of the Tianjin Shipyard will be greatly accelerated.

Until noon, Zhang Yunfei had no intention of leaving. The director of Tianjin Shipyard had looked at his watch several times. It was already past 1:00 noon and it was not too late, so he felt a little hungry. However, Zhang Yunfei had no intention of having a meal, so the director naturally could only accompany Zhang Yunfei respectfully.

However, one of Zhang Yunfei's personal guards saw that it was almost time for lunch, so he carefully reminded him: "Chief! It's already 11:30 noon now."

"Oh" Zhang Yunfei looked at the time. Sure enough, it was half past. Zhang Yunfei patted his head gently, and then smiled and said, "Look, everyone, I'm glad that I forgot about time. Let's go, let's not watch it, go to have dinner first."

The accompanying staff around also smiled kindly. Chairman Zhang looked amiable, and everyone no longer felt nervous as before.

Seeing this, the director of the Tianjin Shipyard immediately said: "Chief! Our factory has prepared food, so let's go to have a meal now?"

Zhang Yunfei asked with a smile: "Director Chen, you have not done extravagance and waste! You must do it according to our system and strictly control the dining standards, otherwise we will not be able to afford it!"

"Don't worry, the leader strictly follows the standards, four dishes and one soup."

After Zhang Yunfei took office, he had introduced a series of clean policies. The three public consumption is the key point. At present, the superior departments have to pay for their meals and meals. The entire government department does not have a budget for public consumption.

For example, when Zhang Yunfei visited Tianjin Shipyard this time, if he had a working meal at Tianjin Shipyard at noon, he would have to pay at the market price after eating, and there was no free lunch. All of this money was paid by Zhang Yunfei privately.

Zhang Yunfei has always believed that without a clean government, it is impossible to realize his dream of rising a great power in his heart.

Zhang Yunfei and his party came down to the restaurant under Director Chen's leadership. When Zhang Yunfei saw the food prepared on the table, Zhang Yunfei couldn't help but nodded in approval.

The standard four dishes and one soup, two meats and one vegetable soup, are very ordinary dishes. They are just very finely cooked and should taste good. In addition, there are some rice and buns next to them.

After Zhang Yunfei sat down, everyone sat down, and there were four people at each table. Zhang Yunfei specially asked Director Chen of Tianjin Shipyard to sit down next to him, which surprised Director Chen, and Director Chen sat down gently.

Zhang Yunfei looked at the food on the table and felt that he was indeed a little hungry. Zhang Yunfei picked up a bun, took a bite and took a bite. Zhang Yunfei felt that the taste was soft, fresh and not greasy.

Zhang Yunfei took a bite of the bun and couldn't help but smile: "Director Chen, this bun shouldn't be made by your canteen!"

Director Chen said respectfully: "Chief, you are so awesome. This is the famous 'Tianjin Goubuli bun', we specially bought it from outside."

No wonder it tastes good.

Zhang Yunfei ate a bite of the bun and saw that everyone did not move their chopsticks, so he immediately said, "Everyone eats it, just one for each person. Everyone tastes the famous 'Tianjin Goubuli bun'."

There are not many buns on the table, four per table, exactly one per person.

After Zhang Yunfei finished the buns, he ate another bowl of white rice. During the meal, Zhang Yunfei also told Director Chen about some things. The first is to speed up the production of the 1,000-ton landing ship, start production at full capacity, and deliver it to the troops as soon as possible.

The second is to speed up the production of large transport ships. In the morning, Zhang Yunfei saw the 6,000-ton transport ship that had been designed. Although Zhang Yunfei made some suggestions, overall, Zhang Yunfei was already very satisfied. If you make some improvements, you can start manufacturing immediately.

The third is that you can start designing light aircraft carriers. Considering that Tianjin Shipyard does not have the experience in designing and manufacturing aircraft carriers, Zhang Yunfei began to prepare to start with light aircraft carriers first, and then consider the design and manufacturing of large aircraft carriers when the experience and technology are further mature in the future.

At present, the 10,000-ton hydraulic press has been installed and debugged, and the large forgings required on some aircraft carriers can also be produced, which is no longer a problem in production equipment, not to mention that it is only a light aircraft carrier.

Director Chen naturally recorded the tasks assigned by Zhang Yunfei one by one, and ensured that the tasks assigned by the leader were completed well.

Seeing that Director Chen was full of confidence, Zhang Yunfei was also quite satisfied. Finally, Zhang Yunfei also specifically proposed that if there were any problems in the design and manufacturing process, he could raise them to the central government. Zhang Yunfei agreed and do his best to solve them for everyone.

After receiving the promise from Zhang Yunfei, Director Chen and other senior executives of Tianjin Shipyard were all happy, and at the same time, they made up their minds to live up to Chairman Zhang's expectations and complete the tasks assigned by Chairman Zhang as soon as possible.

It was already past three o'clock in the afternoon when the inspection from the Tianjin Shipyard was over. After Zhang Yunfei finished his inspection, he immediately returned to Peking and came to the Ministry of National Defense to pay attention to the latest battle situation.

Zhang Yunfei was so anxious to go to the Ministry of National Defense. Not only did his own armies have occupied Shimonoseki City, Honshu, Japan, but major armies are advancing in depth towards Honshu, Japan. More importantly, Zhang Yunfei wanted to learn more about the latest situation of the Pacific War.

More than a dozen days ago, the main force of the Japanese Navy and the US Navy had already broken out in the famous Battle of the Solomon Islands. Japan and the United States have concentrated a large number of aircraft carriers and battleships. At present, the Battle of the Solomon Islands is entering **.

Two months ago, in order to cut off the ties between the United States and Australia, Japan successively attacked the Solomon Islands and Port Moresby. The Japanese Navy covered the army's operations. During the Battle of the Coral Sea, the Japanese Navy met the US military and the Battle of Port Moresby broke out.

In this naval battle, Japan lost a light aircraft carrier, and two other aircraft carriers were severely damaged, while the United States lost the USS Lexington aircraft carrier and the USS York City was injured. The Japanese army failed to achieve its strategic goals and its attack on Port Moresby was curbed.

The Battle of the Solomon Islands took place more than a month after the Battle of Port Moresby, and it was another large-scale naval battle.

Before this, the Japanese Navy and the US military had already fought the Midway Naval Battle. The Battle of the Romon Islands was the third major naval battle between the two sides.

The cause of the Midway Naval Battle was that the US Hornet aircraft carrier, under the command of Lieutenant General Halsey, carried 16 B-25 medium bombers to bomb Tokyo, Kobe and other places in Japan. Although the losses caused were minimal, it stimulated the Japanese nerves. Japan believed that these aircraft came from Midway, so it hurriedly launched the Midway Battle.

During the Battle of Midway, the Japanese army had dispersed their forces, and they had insufficient estimates of the US military and were in chaotic command. They were successfully attacked by the US military and lost three elite aircraft carriers within five minutes, and were seriously injured. Although the remaining Japanese aircraft carrier successfully damaged the US USS York City aircraft carrier, they were also sunk by the aircraft carrier-based aircraft that followed.

Later, the US military began a local counterattack, landed on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomon Islands, and launched a long-term battle. Regarding the battle between Guadal Island, Japan and the United States fought more than 20 large-scale naval battles in one month, including six large-scale naval battles. The two sides lost more than 20 combat ships above destroyers, and the US Navy suffered about 3,300 deaths and injured about 2,500; the Japanese Navy suffered as many as 25,000 casualties.

Now, the battle for Guadalam has ended, and a large-scale naval battle between Japan and the United States has begun for more than ten days. The Japanese army has concentrated all its aircraft carriers, almost all battleships and cruisers.

Zhang Yunfei came to the Ministry of National Defense, a major general in the Operations Office introduced to Zhang Yunfei in detail the latest situation of the Sail Battle of the Solomon Islands collected by China. A group of senior officials of the Ministry of National Defense respectfully accompanied Zhang Yunfei behind him and listened carefully to the major general's report on the situation.

At present, the battle is entering the country, but the Japanese army's losses are much greater than that of the US army. Just the planes, the Japanese army's shot down has reached more than 500 aircraft, while the US army's losses are only about 100 aircraft.

In addition, the Japanese army lost 24 warships and 16 transport ships, including several battleships and cruisers.

The Japanese army not only suffered heavy losses in the navy and aviation, but even the army that had never failed since the war, the most elite 2nd Division and other units also suffered huge losses, especially the losses of the Japanese army's large warships, aircraft and skilled and well-trained pilots, which were difficult for the Japanese army to make up for.

After listening to the report, Zhang Yunfei felt relieved. If nothing unexpected happens, this Battle of the Solomon Islands will end with the victory of the US military.

If the failure of the Japanese naval battle in Midway was a turning point in the entire Pacific War, and the situation began to develop in a way that was unfavorable to Japan and was conducive to the United States, then the Guadalam Battle and the Solomon Islands Navy were the beginning of the demise of the Japanese navy.

Zhang Yunfei knew that if nothing unexpected happened, the Japanese Navy would not only fail to regain strategic initiative after the defeat of the Battle of the Solomon Islands, but instead, as the military strength was gradually weakened, it would eventually lose strategic initiative completely, thus falling into a completely passive situation. From then on, the Japanese army had to change from strategic offensive to strategic defense, defend everywhere, passive step by step until it was defeated.

Zhang Yunfei sighed: "Japan will definitely be defeated in the Battle of the Solomon Islands. Once Japan is defeated, the strength of the Japanese navy will be greatly weakened. I think the US military may be able to fight to the Japanese mainland in less than a few months. We have to hurry up and advance in Japan."

So, Zhang Yunfei began to order the Ministry of Defense to speed up military operations in Japan and strive to occupy the entire territory of Japan before the US military landed in Japan.

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