.As usual, after dinner, Mu Haoyang returned to Piaotianwen.com video call.

During the network security test, Mu Haoyang's eyes turned to the family photo on the left side of the screen. The photo was taken at the beginning of the year when his children turned five years old. For this matter, Mu Haoyang made a special trip to return home. As the saying goes, happy events are in pairs. Before he returned to Gwadar Port, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant general.

It took five and a half years to be promoted from major general to lieutenant general, which was definitely not fast.

Everyone knows that this is a late promotion, or that Huang Zhibo deliberately suppressed Mu Haoyang's promotion speed and gave him more opportunities to exercise.

In another half a month, Mu Haoyang will leave Gwadar Port and return to the General Staff.

If he was promoted three years ago, Mu Haoyang would have to go back three years ago, and he would lose his command and lose his chance to gain military achievements.

It can be said that Huang Zhibo has good intentions.

In the past five years, Mu Haoyang has grown from an unknown major general to the one with the richest practical experience among thousands of generals.

The wars and battles that have been experienced over the past five years are still vivid in my mind.

In August 2022, in accordance with Huang Zhibo's instructions, Mu Haoyang planned a special operations operation to help Tanzanian's elected president defeat the major opposition armed groups, and helped Tanzanian's elected president clear domestic obstacles after half a year. In return, Tanzania confiscated all land controlled by foreign companies in 2023, carried out land reforms, and allocated land to farmers. Subsequently, Tanzania signed a free trade agreement with China and joined the Indian Ocean Free Trade Zone led by Pakistan, becoming China's first strategic ally and strategic stronghold in Eastern Africa. In order to consolidate this major strategic achievement, Mu Haoyang sent a 500-man military advisory team to Tanzania to help Tanzania carry out national defense construction.

Taking Tanzania as a springboard, China's African strategy is gradually unfolding.

In July 2023, a military conflict broke out between Tanzania and Kenya over the issue of water resources allocation in Lake Victoria, which immediately turned into a full-scale war. In this spokesperson war with Japan-supporting Kenya and China-supporting Tanzania, Mu Haoyang took thunder measures to dispatch a land brigade as soon as possible, and defeated the Kenyan army in just fifteen days. Before the Japanese support troops arrived, they occupied Mombasa, Kenya's only port. Three months later,

Nairobi was conquered by Tanzanian troops and the Kenyan regime collapsed. Although the military occupation lasted only half a year, with the African Union intervening, Tanzanian troops withdrew from Kenya in April 2024, and the African Union peacekeeping forces were responsible for the transitional control work, in the past six months, all fourteen Japanese farming bases in Kenya were uprooted, and thousands of overseas farming personnel fled to Uganda. Japan's farming operations in East Africa went bankrupt.

In the following two years, Mu Haoyang attacked everywhere. He completed his strategic responsibilities in Uganda in July 2024, Zambia in January 2025, Zimbabwe in August 2025, Mozambique in February 2026, and Madagascar in October 2026, respectively.

By the end of 2026, Eastern Africa had no place for Japan.

Of course, Mu Haoyang was very good at the general. He also had a record of failure in the military operations he planned, and it was a failure with a very great impact.

In May 2026, after overthrowing the Mozambique military government, Mu Haoyang set his sights on Somalia, but was hit by the U.S. military. During the three-month military conflict, more than 200 marines and special forces were stained with blood on the battlefield. In mid-August, after the US-backed Somali youth militia surrounded Mogadishu, Mu Haoyang had to make a decision to withdraw his troops and stop military intervention in Somalia.

This failure was also the direct fuse for the subsequent military coup in Madagascar.

Strictly speaking, the main reason for the failure in Somalia is not Mu Haoyang. First, the Somali government forces supported by Mu Haoyang were too cowardly and were defeated in two major battles. Second, on the strategic level, even Fu Xiubo did not agree to direct confrontation with the United States.

Allies are unreliable and the rear does not provide support, so it is strange that they are undefeated.

Objectively speaking, the war launched by Mu Haoyang in the past five years has basically not suffered any losses, but has opened up a situation on the African continent.

More importantly, in all military conflicts, China has very limited troops to use.

Being able to subvert seven countries with special war requires not only superb military command skills, but also a brilliant political vision.

Somalia's crushing defeat was precisely because of its lack of political vision. If Mu Haoyang chose not the government army but the youth militia organization, the results would definitely be different.

Obviously, Mu Haoyang has a good political vision, but it needs more training.

What is commendable is that during this period, Mu Haoyang also shouldered the important task of naval equipment construction and had to return to China to handle major affairs every month on average.

What is even more commendable is that Mu Haoyang was not affected by special wars in naval equipment construction.

Huang Zhibo valued him and gave him great power, which was not without reason.

If it were someone else, they would definitely make adjustments to naval equipment construction based on the special wars on the African continent, rather than treating it with a further eye.

In the past five years, China's naval equipment construction has made great progress.

In December 2023, the "Huangdi" was successfully modified and became the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of the Chinese Navy. China became the third country to have nuclear-powered aircraft carriers after the United States and France. A year and a half later, in June 2025, the "Yangtze River" code-named "c1" and the "Huanghe" code-named "c2" were modified, becoming the second nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the world after the Ford class. After Japan built the "Akagi", it did not start construction of the same-class aircraft carrier, but instead turned to a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with stronger combat capabilities, so the Navy did not make the third major reform of the "Huangdi" and did not install electromagnetic catapults. According to the Navy's arrangement, the "Huangdi" will be converted to a training aircraft carrier after the C3 aircraft carrier, that is, a large domestic aircraft carrier, and will no longer perform combat missions. Before this, the "Huangdi" also mainly carried out training missions.

The "Himalaya" code-named "c3" started construction in July 2025 and is expected to be launched in December 2029, the outfit will be completed in June 2031, and it will be officially put into service in January 2032. The construction will be started at the same time, and the "Kunlun Mountain" code-named "c4" will be put into service at the same time.

Because the Navy canceled the third major reform arrangement for the "Huangdi", after completing the upgrade of the ship platform, the "Tianshan" code-named "c4" will start construction in December 2025. With the completion of the large ship platform of Jiangnan Shipyard No. 2, the "Qinling" code-named "c5" will start construction in January 2026.

By the end of 2032, the Chinese Navy will own six aircraft carriers.

Among the supporting battleships, two Beijing-class cruisers were put into service in January 2023, four Hefei-class large destroyers were put into service in June 2023, six Guilin-class ocean frigates were put into service in August 2023, and the last two Type 095 attack nuclear submarines were put into service in January 2024, and the first two Class 097 attack nuclear submarines were delivered in March and July 2026, respectively.

As for the existing warships of the Shanghai Army, it is more than enough to form two aircraft carrier battle groups.

Such a rapid development speed is called "the great explosion of the Chinese Navy" by the news media. However, in a few years, it will be called "the first major explosion of the Chinese Navy."

After the "Yangtze River" and "Yellow River" entered service, the Chinese Navy surpassed the Royal Navy in all aspects such as the number of aircraft carriers and the total tonnage of main warships, becoming the second largest navy in the world after the US Navy, and also becoming the second navy with ocean-wide independent combat capabilities.

These achievements are all contributed by Mu Haoyang.

It can be said that whether it is commanding foreign military operations or being responsible for naval equipment construction, any achievement is enough to enable Mu Haoyang to win the rank of lieutenant general in 2025.

However, this is not all the achievements Mu Haoyang has achieved in these five years.

Although Huang Zhibo did not make clear arrangements, Mu Haoyang also played the role of senior adviser to the Pakistani military during his time in Gwadar Port.

In 2024, after the military nature of Gwadar Port was determined, the Pakistani Navy also participated in the construction work.

Subsequently, at the invitation of General Aziz, Mu Haoyang gave advice on the construction of the Pakistan Navy. Because he participated in the Second Korean War and the East China Sea War, Mu Haoyang also received invitations from General Musharraf and General Karava to provide advice on the modernization of the Pakistan Air Force and the Army.

Of course, the main purpose of the Pakistani military is to obtain more military aid through Mu Haoyang.

To this end, Pakistan also actively participated in China's military operations in East Africa. Although it did not send troops to participate in the war, it greatly reduced the combat burden of the Chinese army by providing logistics support and maximized the scale of military operations.

If the Chinese army is responsible for logistics support on its own, it will not only be used for special forces and Marines.

In January 2026, before Mu Haoyang returned to China, General Karava personally gave him the epaulette of honorary lieutenant general and also presented him with a medal of honor.

This made Mu Haoyang a little amused, because it forced Huang Zhibo to give him a promotion order.

Mu Haoyang's contributions to China-Pakistan friendship were outstanding. When awarding the rank of lieutenant general, Huang Zhibo emphasized this point particularly.

This made Mu Haoyang even more embarrassed because it was equivalent to ignoring his contributions in other aspects.

However, Mu Haoyang did not blame others because he knew what path he should go, how to move forward, and how to realize his life ideals with the least time.

For this reason, Mu Haoyang not only did not apply for promotion in 2025, but also gave up an opportunity that seemed to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to others: he became the commander of the Marine Corps in 2026.

For Cao Anguo and Pang Yuelong, this is an opportunity.
Chapter completed!