Under the clear blue sky is an endless sea, the salty and wet sea breeze blows slowly, and in the shaking waves, there are two silver-gray painted warships, one large and one small, with slender and graceful lines, are cleaving the waves, moving forward in a formation one after the other.

The warship in front is the Yueyang ship, and the one in the back is the Xiangyang ship. The sharp bow of the ship, the turquoise blue sea, cut the herringbone incision, the snow-white waves churned and the thin waves, dragging a long track, all the way under the sea and sky, from time to time there were several seagulls, flying over the bridge, there was a crisp chirp. In the distance in the direction of the bow of the ship, the gray-blue outline of the coast is faintly visible.

Wang Hailong, the captain of the Yueyang ship, looked at the beautiful scene of the sea and sky through the porthole in the bridge, and said: "I can already see the land, it should be about the same, report our speed and direction, how much time can we get close to the coast?"

Immediately in the bridge there was a humanitarian: "Report to the captain, the speed is 18.2 knots, the direction is 285.6 degrees, and it is expected that there will be twenty minutes to get close to the coast and carry out the landing." ”

Wang Hailong nodded, and said to Luo Yue beside him: "Platoon Commander Luo, you still have thirty minutes, I will ask someone to prepare an assault boat for you, and it will land soon." ”

Luo Yue saluted Wang Hailong and said, "Yes, we are going to land immediately." ”

At this moment, I only heard a voice from the communicator, saying, "Report to the captain, I found that there is a situation on the shore." ”

Wang Hailong frowned, this is a signal from the lookout Bai Peng, although modern warships use radar as the main means of search and detection, but each warship has set up a lookout, and is equipped with an electric high-magnification telescope for visual distance observation, so Wang Hailong immediately said: "What's the situation?" said and picked up the high-magnification binoculars on the operating table and looked out of the ship's window.

Although his high-magnification binoculars are not as good as the electric high-magnification telescopes on the Yueyang ship, they also have a visual distance of 20 times, and now the Yueyang ship is only about 12 kilometers away from the coast, so the high-magnification binoculars can generally see the scene on the shore.

Through high-magnification binoculars, Wang Hailong saw that not far from the seaside, there was a small village, and there were more than ten wooden fishing boats moored on the seaside, but there were several fires in the small village, and people kept running around, in addition to ordinary people, there were also some soldiers in military uniforms and rifles, who were chasing the people everywhere, and some people were smashing doors and setting fires. It's just that because the distance is too far, even if you can't see their faces clearly with a telescope, but you can see it from the military uniform. It is certain that this is by no means the army of the Chun Dynasty.

Wang Hailong put down the binoculars, his face was solemn, and said: "This must be the Eight-Nation Alliance Army burning, killing and looting, but I don't know that it is the army of that country." ”

Luo Yue said, "Captain Wang, what should we do now?" We can't just watch the Eight-Nation Alliance kill us Chinese. ”

Wang Hailong said: "Platoon Commander Luo, you still go to prepare for landing, I will contact the Kunming ship immediately now, and ask the headquarters for instructions." ”

Luo Yue nodded and said, "Yes." He saluted Wang Hailong, then left the bridge command room and walked towards the stern.

After a while, Luo Yue came to the helicopter platform at the stern of the ship, and at this time, the whole platoon of soldiers suddenly gathered on the helicopter platform, among which there were two Qing Dynasty people from this time and space, who were the two fishermen He Xing and He Ping brothers who were rescued by Luo Yue and them from the sea.

It turned out that after inquiry, the brothers He Xing and He Ping lived in a place called Hejiawan Village, about 30 kilometers north of Dagukou by the sea, the village was not big, only 100 households, most of them were surnamed He, all of them were mainly fishing, and there were also a small number of fields. Each family had fishing boats, two of which also had two larger fishing boats, which could go out to the sea to fish, so Zhao Weizhong went to Hejiawan Village to sell boats and fled to Shanghai by sea.

After Xiao Jianjun learned of this information, he thought that he could use Hejiawan Village as a land base for attacking Dagukou, transport the marines and armored troops to the shore, and gather in Hejiawan Village, so as to attract the attention of the Eight-Nation Allied Fleet with a sea attack, and then the marines would attack from the land and occupy Dagukou in one fell swoop. This is the plan formulated by Xiao Jianjun to attack Dagukou. Luo Yue's sharp knife platoon was the vanguard of the landing, and they first landed in Hejiawan Village to understand the details of Hejiawan Village, and then sent a large force to land.

He Xing and He Ping's brothers are not very old, He Xin is sixteen years old this year, and He Ming is only thirteen years old, the brothers' father has died, and there is only one old lady left in the family, because the family lacks labor, and the two brothers are underage, so the family living conditions are very poor, and they can only avoid forced time.

Zhao Weizhong went to Hejiawan Village to sell a boat and fled to Shanghai by sea, and he needed sailors, but most of the fishermen in Hejiawan Village were reluctant to go out to sea, first, because it was too far away from Shanghai, and it was too risky to run down this trip; second, because the current situation was not good, and if he went to sea and met a foreigner's ironclad ship, it would be over, so the owner of the ship was unwilling to go to sea, so he only sold the ship to Zhao Weizhong at a high price. And Zhao Weizhong had no choice but to make a lot of money in the village and recruit other fishermen as sailors.

Because of their poor family background, the brothers He Xing and He Ping were hired by Zhao Weizhong at the price of fifteen taels of silver to sail a boat, and the other people who went to sea were also poor people in the village. Fifteen taels of silver is not much in Zhao Weizhong's opinion, but it is enough for He Xing and He Ping's families to live for nearly two years.

After going to sea to the sea was very smooth, and did not meet the foreigners' ironclad ship, but sailed out of the Bohai Sea, when entering the Yellow Sea, there was still an accident, was hit and sunk by a sudden iron-hulled ship, if it was not for the evacuation fleet to cross to the nearby waters, I am afraid that the whole ship will be buried in the sea, but the whole ship has a total of eighteen people, and only seven were rescued, six fishermen employed by Zhao Weizhong, only He Xing, He Ping brothers survived.

After being rescued, the brothers He Xing and He Ping were very grateful to the officers and men who crossed the fleet, and the two brothers were not very old, and they had no scheming, because they learned that the officers and soldiers who were going to cross the fleet were going to go ashore to fight the foreigners, and the two brothers agreed very much, so they were willing to lead the way to the village for the crossing fleet.

When Luo Yue came to the helicopter deck, the brothers were chatting with several soldiers, it turned out that Liu Tie, the leader of the first squad, and Wang Jianhui, the deputy of the machine gunner of the third squad, were both from Tianjin, and they could talk directly with them in Tianjin dialect.

Seeing Luo Yue coming, Liu Tie, the leader of the first squad, immediately greeted him and said, "Platoon leader, how is it?"

Luo Yue said: "Gather immediately and prepare to land." ”

When the soldiers heard this, they immediately lined up according to their shifts and units, and the brothers He Xing and He Ping also stood up, a little at a loss.

At this time, the side door of the helicopter hangar opened, and a soldier came out of the hangar and said, "Platoon Commander Luo, the captain ordered, we can't move forward anymore, you guys will land in the assault boat immediately, the assault boat is ready." And the captain will talk to you right away, please come with me. ”

Luo Yue listened, and hurriedly followed the soldier to the display screen in the helicopter hangar, and it was Wang Hailong who was displayed at this time, Luo Yue said: "Captain Wang, what are your instructions?"

Wang Hailong said: "I just talked to the Kunming ship, the command ordered the Yueyang ship and the Xiangyang ship not to get close to the shore again, you immediately land on the assault boat, after going ashore, find out the number of enemy troops, if the number is not large, immediately destroy them on the spot, if the number is too much, don't alarm them, immediately report to the Yueyang ship, wait for the next instruction of the headquarters, and pay attention to protect the safety of He Xing and He Ping, we are waiting for you here, and pay attention to maintaining contact with the Yueyang ship at any time." ”

Luo Yue hurriedly said: "Yes, I promise to complete the task." ”

After finishing speaking, he immediately returned to the helicopter platform and lined up again: "Comrades, just now we found out that the suspected enemy army is plundering in the village where we are going to land, so now we will immediately change to an assault boat to land, prepare for battle, and set off. ”

When the fighters heard this, they immediately lined up and came to the place where they boarded the assault boat. At this time, Luo Yue came to the brothers He Xing and He Ping, and said, "You two brothers should also go ashore with us, but don't go to the shore in front of your village, but lead us to a place a little farther away from the village, so as not to be discovered." ”

He Xing said timidly: "Master Jun, did a foreign ghost come to our village?"

Luo Yue said: "It should be." ”

He Ping suddenly cried and said, "My mother is still in the village? Master Jun, you must save my mother. ”

Luo Yue said: "It's useless to say anything now, wait until you get ashore, but after you go ashore, there may be danger, so you must obey our orders and don't run around, understand?"

He Xing hurriedly grabbed his brother and said, "Yes, Master Jun, we listen to your orders." ”

Luo Yue nodded and said, "Let's go." ”

When Luo Yue and the two brothers came to the place where they boarded the assault boat, the other soldiers had already boarded the assault boat.

The Yueyang is equipped with four assault boats, each of which can seat ten people, including two pilots, with a maximum speed of 40 knots, and a 12.7 mm machine gun can be installed in the bow of the assault boat.

The platoon level of the Marine Corps is the same as that of the army platoon, the whole platoon is composed of three squads, each squad has nine soldiers, and the whole platoon has only one platoon leader, and the deputy platoon leader is concurrently the first squad leader, so the total number of the whole platoon is 28 people, plus He Xing and He Ping brothers, a total of 30 people. So all the four assault boats equipped on the Yueyang ship were used.

After Luo Yue led the brothers He Xing and He Ping to board the assault boat, the four assault boats set off together, and according to the guidance of the He Xin and He Ming brothers, they rushed to the shore.

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