When Yang Mengzhen arrived on Jiangtian Island, he understood what Zhang Qingru meant.

Etajima is a city in Hiroshima Prefecture that was established more than a decade ago, and is a city that combines several 'towns' into one city, which is the entire area of Etajima. It's not small here. It is about the same size as Yiwu in the Han Kingdom. But the people here are not ordinarily few.

When Yang Meng took the boat to Jiangtian Island, the people on the boat were very enthusiastic, so enthusiastic that Yang Meng doubted that they wanted to introduce their daughters to themselves。。。。。。

As a result, after arriving at Jiangtian Island, Yang Meng knew why they were so enthusiastic: just imagine, in a city as big as Yiwu City, there are less than 20,000 people living here, and there are basically no people on the road except for the urban area, what is it like?

And there is nothing else here, it is seafood and seafood, after all, this is the largest producer of Dongying oysters.

Yang Meng and Zhang Qingru dressed like tourists and came to the 'Dongying Maritime Self-Defense Force No. 1 Technical School and Cadre Candidate School'.

This is not eye-catching, after all, this large Eda Island is really not a tourist attraction!

There is only one park, and the name is very loud, it is called 'Guying Memorial Park', which is named because there is a Guying Mountain next to the school. So why is it called a 'memorial park'? Gu Zhang Qingru guessed that it was supposed to commemorate the Kotaka-class heavy cruisers during World War II, but the problem was that there were only two ships of this class, and both of them were sunk.

Aside from this place, the entire Etajima Island is a place that I really haven't played.

Most of the people who come here are 'military fans', and they visit this 'Toei Maritime Self-Defense Force No. 1 Technical School and Cadre Candidate School'.

What is there to visit in this place? Because its predecessor was the famous 'Etajima Naval Academy', which was once known as one of the three most famous naval schools in the world, along with the Annapolis Naval Academy and the Dartmouth Naval Academy in the country. The entire Pacific War can be said to be a war between two schools, the Etajima Naval Academy and the Annapolis Naval Academy.

Before World War II, almost all the admirals in Dongying walked out of this school! Including Heihachiro, Fifty-six and the like! Well, even Xu Fu's illegitimate son Kimura Masafu 。。。。。。

Dongying's attention to this school is extraordinary, at that time, it was established to imitate the corrupt country, and when the school was built, 'every red brick was transported from the corrupt country'.

The first school was in Tokyo, but I felt that such a big city was not conducive to the growth of students, so I moved to Etajima, where rabbits don't. Well, Etajima is also a place where the erotic business is explicitly prohibited, because of the regulations enacted to prevent the degeneration of naval cadets.

After the war, the school was abolished, and it became today's 'Toei Maritime Self-Defense Force No. 1 Technical School and Cadre Candidate School'. The teaching method has also changed from the rotten national education of the year to the star-striped education.

Yang Meng and Zhang Qingru took pictures at the school gate like tourists, and Zhang Qingru whispered: "You see that red teaching building, right? That's their dormitory, and the anchor is in front of the teaching building behind the dormitory building." ”

"Well, I slipped in at night and let him go!" Yang Meng said.

Zhang Qingru said: "I'm with you." ”

Yang Meng shook his head: "Are you here to drag your feet? I really don't understand, what is this 'eight-foot Qionggou Jade' doing in an anchor?"

"Huh?" Zhang Qingru's eyes widened: "You don't know the 'Snow Wind'?"

Yang Meng's head shook like a rattle.

Zhang Qingru sighed and said: "I have always thought that the 'Snow Wind' is too magical, and the luck has been so good that no matter what book it puts in, it is the existence of the protagonist, if the 'Eight-foot Qiong Hook Jade' is in his anchor, this can be explained." ”

"What did it do to make you sigh like this?" Yang Meng asked puzzled.

Zhang Qingru said: "During World War II, the Dongying Navy had 'three auspicious rui', the Snow Wind, the Shiyu and the Ye Branch, well, it is a bit controversial to say that the Ye Branch is auspicious, the Ye Branch can be selected because it is the destroyer with the most tonnage sunk during World War II, but almost all of the ships he sank were his own ships, probably because of bad character, it was the first of the three auspicious Ruili to sink, the 'Shiyu' also sank in the end, and the 'Snow Wind'? Before the war, Dongying had a total of 85 destroyers, but only the 'Snow Wind' survived to the end of the war! In the Battle of the Bismarck Sea commanded by Kimura Masafu, a total of eight destroyers participated in the battle and four were sunk, and even the 'Qiangyun' Kimura Masafu was seriously wounded. Let me just say this, the Snow Wind participated in almost all the large and medium-sized defeats of the Dongying Navy during World War II, and he participated in the last two major defeats of the Dongying Navy such as the 'Jie-1 Operation' and the 'Kikusui Operation', and the entire World War II period from beginning to end, the loss of this ship was less than ten people, do you say this ship is magical?"

Yang Meng's eyes widened: "There is such a magical ship?"

"Well, large and small have participated in dozens of battles, unscathed!" Zhang Qingru was idle, so he simply told Yang Meng about the history of the 'Snow Wind'.

First of all, it must be said that the 'Snow Wind' is really not the kind of person who escaped far away after the war so he saved himself, and people really rushed to the front. In fact, before the war, the 'Snow Wind' was a very famous ship in the Dongying Navy, because the crew level was notoriously excellent, and all skill levels were among the best in the entire Dongying Fleet, and all the advanced equipment of the Dongying Army was the first to be equipped with the 'Snow Wind', including the latest air-to-sea radar, which was first installed on the 'Snow Wind'.

After the outbreak of the Pacific War at Pearl Harbor at the end of 1941, the "Yukikaze" accompanied the 16th Destroyer Fleet to the waters of Sulu to support the landing operation. Prior to the Midway operation, it had only been strafed by fighter machine gun fire, and no one had died;

When participating in the Battle of Midway, the task of the "Snow Wind" was to act as a decoy to attract the opponent's aircraft carriers, but the bait was fine, the main fleet entered the opponent's ambush circle instead, and the four aircraft carriers were sunk, and the "Snow Wind" was unscathed;

When it came to the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, the "Yukikaze" served as the frigate of the "Xianghe" aircraft carrier, and then the "Xianghe" came up and was beaten and withdrew from the battle, and the "Yukikaze" was unscathed;

In the Battle of Guadalcanal, the "Yukikaze" escorted the battleship "Hiei", and after the battle, the Hiei was seriously damaged, and the "Tianjin Feng", which was on the escort mission with him, was heavily damaged, and the Yukikaze 。。。。。。 It was not unscathed, it was accidentally shot by friendly forces, causing a slight water ingress, presumably to vent the fire, and finally the 'lightning strike' punishment that sank the Hiei was handed over to it to carry out;

In the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, seven ships of the entire fleet were sunk, and the Yukikaze was unscathed, and many sailors who fell into the water were saved.

By 1944, the 16th Destroyer Fleet where the Yukikaze was located was the only active ship, so the Toei Navy transferred it to the 17th Destroyer Fleet.

As a result, as soon as the transfer passed, when the Yukikaze and the Gufeng were sailing together, the Gufeng was sunk by a submarine, and the Xuefeng was unscathed; in the Battle of the Marianas, the Dongying Navy suffered a crushing defeat and the Yukikaze was unscathed; Dongying, known as the largest 'Battle of Leyte Gulf' in human history, lost more than 30 warships, including four aircraft carriers, and all the battleships that survived were wounded, but the Xuefeng was still unscathed!

And what is the greatest feat of the Yukikaze? It is to escort the aircraft carrier 'Shinano'. Those who are familiar with the history of World War II must have heard of this unfortunate name: Dongying's last hope, the legendary supercarrier, and the shortest-lived aircraft carrier: less than twenty hours from the maiden voyage to its sinking, well, the Yukikaze is still fine.

Even in the completely suicidal attack of the 'Kikusui Operation' (also known as the Battle of Cape Fang), Toei's 'Yamato' carried out this mission with one cruiser and eight destroyers, but in the end only four destroyers survived------ Yukikaze was one of them.

But the Yukikaze wasn't without incident: they had three dead and fifteen wounded!

An even more amazing thing is in the back: when they were overhauling, they actually found an aerial bomb in the ship's granary that had not yet exploded! That is to say, the only bomb in the entire Pacific War "Snow Wind" was still a dud bomb from beginning to end!

In fact, the miraculous thing is not over, the entire 17th destroyer fleet is left with two destroyers, "Snow Wind" and "First Frost", at that time it is a matter of time before Dongying is defeated, so these two ships usually hide in the port and wait for the war to end, but one day the plane attacked, and the two ships escaped from the port for refuge, but they hit their own mines.

The mine fuse that the 'Snow Wind' encountered failed and did not explode, while the 'First Frost' sank directly。。。。。。

After the end of World War II, there was very little left of the Dongying Combined Fleet, which once had hundreds of ships of various kinds, and some of the remaining ships were directly dismantled, some were delivered to the United Nations, and some were directly scuttled, and the "Snow Wind" was also renamed "Danyang" and delivered to the Han Kingdom. Later, it became a ship of the Takajima Navy and was decommissioned in 1969.

After the retirement, the Dongying side wanted to get the ship back to the Dongying, but at that time, the Yukikaze was already seriously damaged and could not be towed back, and in the end, the Dongying only brought back the steering wheel and anchor, and the steering wheel was put down in the museum, and the anchor became a scenery in the "Dongying Maritime Self-Defense Force No. 1 Technical School and Cadre Candidate School".

"Okay, let's go in and have a look?" Zhang Qingru asked.

As the only tourist attraction on Etajima, this school is actually open to the public, and the school has a special docent to lead you around, but you also need to register personal information or a fixed tour route.

These are all tolerable, but what is unbearable: there are only three times a day, and if you miss it, you have to wait for the next shift, look at the time, and wait for two hours?

"Let's go, eat, don't look at it, don't look at it, there will be a freshness when I come in the evening. ”