The lake was already a noisy scene. Fishermen use bamboo rafts to drive small rafts to comb on the vast lake, deliver fresh fish and shrimp harvested in the early morning to the shore dock for trading, and wait tirelessly all night to wait for the joy of trading at this moment.

The mist that hangs over the lake is gradually dispelled by the rising sun, and it also dispels the hustle and bustle of the early morning. The lake gradually calmed down. The breeze blows, the surface of the lake ripples, and the golden light shimmers in the reflection of the sun, as if it has been inlaid with thousands of pearls.

From time to time, fish curiously splash out of the water, as if they want to see the beautiful scenery on the lake. This scene can't help but make people think, September day, breeze, how comfortable it should be to boat on the lake!

There is a small island in the middle of the lake called Junshan Island, which is composed of 72 peaks. The island is verdant and verdant, the forest path is tortuous and quiet, and the birds and flowers are really nostalgic and unforgettable. There are many legends circulating on the island, the most famous of which are the stories of Empress E's Mai Ying and Liu Yi.

According to legend, the smart and beautiful Empress E and Nuying were the two daughters of Emperor Yao, the tribal chieftain in ancient times. Also known as "Imperial Young". In his later years, Emperor Yao wanted to find a satisfactory heir. He saw that Shun was a great sage with outstanding virtue and ability, so he passed the throne to Shun and made Empress E and Nuying the wives of Shun.

Emperor E was named the queen, and Nuying was named the concubine. Shun lived up to Yao's trust, let Yu control the flood, so that the people lived a stable life, and Empress E and Nuying also assisted Shun to do good things for the people. In the later years of Emperor Shun, there was a war in the area of Jiuzhi Mountain, and Shun wanted to inspect the situation there. Shun told the two ladies about this idea.

Thinking of Shun's old age and decrepitude, the two ladies scrambled to go with Shun. Considering the high mountains and dense forests, the tortuous road and the dangerous future, Shun did not agree to go with the second concubine. But the second concubine insisted on going, so Shun had no choice but to leave quietly with a few entourages.

When Empress E and Nuying learned the news that Shun had left, they immediately set off to catch up. When chasing to the Yangtze River, he encountered a strong wind and the ship overturned and sank. Fortunately, they were rescued by a fisherman and sent them to Dongting Mountain, which is now Junshan Island for resettlement.

Later, they learned that Emperor Shun was dead and buried at the foot of Jiuzhi Mountain, so they wept in the direction of Jiuzhi Mountain every day, and dyed the bamboo here with tears. Later, they threw themselves into Xiangshui and died, becoming the gods of Xiangshui.

Another legend is just as poignant. According to legend, during the reign of Tang Yifeng (676-679 AD), the scholar Liu Yi went to Beijing to take the exam. Returning to Jingyang, the road met a shepherdessman with tears on her face. Seeing this, Liu Yi was very sympathetic, so he stepped forward to inquire and learned that the woman was the third princess of the Dragon King of Dongting, who married Jingyang Jun and was brutally abused by him.

The scholar felt pity for the fragrance and the jade, and offered to help the dragon girl escape from Jingyang. The dragon girl shook her head and said, "You and I can't escape." The scholar asked, what can be done? The dragon girl plucked a jade basket from her head and handed it to Liu Sheng: Xiang Gong went to the Ting Mountain of Dongting Lake (now Junshan Island), there was an ancient well, and there was an orange tree next to the well.

Liu Xianggong was entrusted by the dragon maiden to rush to Junshan to find the orange well, and knocked three times on the orange tree by the well, and the sea patrol god who guarded the door took him into the dragon palace. When I saw the dragon king, I said that the dragon girl was miserable. Long Jun's younger brother Qian Tangjun was furious, turned into a hundred zhang red dragon, went to Jingyang, destroyed Jingyang Jun, and took back the dragon girl.

After being saved, the dragon girl no longer wants to submit to her father's orders, and is determined to marry Liu Yi, whom she loves. And back then, Liu Yi passed on the book for the Dragon Girl, completely out of love, and had no selfish thoughts. Later, Qian Tangjun saw that the two of them were very compatible and made them get married, but Liu Yi refused to marry because there was no matchmaker as an intermediary and he thought that he had indirectly killed the husband of the third princess.

After Liu Yi returned to the ground, he often looked at the lake and sighed; And the third princess also misses Liu Yi day and night. Qian Tangjun then turned into a matchmaker and went to Liu's house to talk about matchmaking, and the two lovers finally got married......

Suddenly, the roar of the Japanese 95-1 fighters came from the sky, and more than 30 Japanese fighters and an entire aviation group flew from Dongting Lake in the direction of Yingtian.

The sound of huge warships on the water was also heard, and more than 20 warships and more than 100 speedboats were quickly approaching from Dongting Lake and in the direction of Yingtian.

Beauty is instantly shattered by ugliness, and peace is instantly torn apart by war.

The Japanese Type 95-1 fighter was a biplane fighter, and its flight speed reached an astonishing 455 km/h, which had reached the advanced level of monoplane fighters at that time. It has a maximum speed of 400km/h, a cruising range of 1,100km, an ascent limit of 10,000m, and a 3-blade propeller.

Its engine is a nominal 720 hp Kawasaki Type 95 800 hp liquid-cooled 12-cylinder engine, with a crew of 1 and two 7.7mm machine guns.

The commander of this army aviation unit was Dashui Dazuo, with three squadrons and 36 fighters, and it was to capture Yingtian with absolute superiority. Clear the road in the air for the long drive into Changsha, and firmly control the air supremacy.

The 11th Sentai of the Japanese Navy, also known as the 11th Detachment of the 3rd Fleet, or the Yangtze River Fleet. This was a river flotilla carefully built by the Japanese army in order to attack China.

The 3rd Fleet, based in Shanghai, fought in central China, especially on the Yangtze River, under Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa.

The 3rd Fleet also made a corresponding division of labor, and he also had two fleets: the 10th and 11th fleets.

Among them, the 10th Sentai was mainly used to provide air and coastal fire support for the Japanese forces attacking Shanghai and other coastal cities, so the 10th Sentai included the Izumo heavy cruisers, as well as the cruisers Tatsuda and Tenryu, all of which had heavy artillery, such as the Izumo with 4 203 mm guns and 14 150 mm guns, which could effectively provide artillery support.

The other 11th team is a different story.

Compared with the 10th Sentai Team, the 11th Sentai seems to be inconspicuous at all, its large ships have a displacement of only about 1,000 tons, and there are small warships of 200,300 tons, compared to the flagship Izumo with a displacement of nearly 10,000 tons and a draft of more than 7 meters in the 10th Sentai Squadron, the warships of the 11th Sentai are simply small.

In fact, this does not mean that the 11th Sentai warship is poor, and the Japanese army did not equip him with good warships, but because his main combat area is the Yangtze River.

The Yangtze River is a strange river, and in many basins of the Yangtze River, the river surface is wide and the water flow is gentle. When they went to Nanjing to fight, the warships had already sailed into the Wuxi River, and because the Yangtze River was so wide, some Japanese soldiers who had never seen a big river even thought that they had not entered the Yangtze River and were still on the sea.

But the Yangtze River also has many shoals and so-called dry periods, during which many basins of the Yangtze River are less than 2 meters deep, such as the Izumo, which has an 8-meter draft.

The waters of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River are even more exaggerated, the Three Gorges channel west of the important town of Yichang is narrow, the bends are complicated, the beach is turbulent, and the dangers are numerous, and only one boat is allowed to pass through in some places. Even during the wet season, the Three Gorges waterway can often only accommodate civilian ships of less than 1,500 tons, and as for warships, the draft is deeper than that of civilian ships, and they can often pass through it with a draft of less than 1,000 tons.

Therefore, it is not that the Japanese army does not have large warships to use, but it cannot use heavy warships with large tonnage and deep ponds in the Yangtze River, and can only use river gunboats with a draft of less than 3 meters or even less than 2 meters.

In order to invade China and control the Yangtze River, the Japanese army spent half a century, and specially built an elite fleet, that is, the 3rd Fleet and the 11th Fleet, which is the so-called Yangtze River Fleet.

This 11th team, in the Battle of Wuhan, was severely beaten by Han Xing's Southern Expeditionary Army. This 11th team is not remembering to eat or fight, and they have come to Yingtian to find trouble again.

In fact, they don't blame them for this matter, they don't know that the Southern Expeditionary Army is here, otherwise if they come, they will have to think about it.

At 18:00 and 19:25 on September 22, the first batch of the 5th Brigade of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army took a boat from Yueyang and was loaded and sailed by the 11th Naval Squadron.

After traveling more than 60 kilometers along Dongting Lake and Suxiang River, the unit arrived at Yingtian on the morning of 23 July.

Originally, the Xiangjiang River and Dongting Lake were both in the dry period, and the water depth along the coast was less than half a meter, so the Japanese army could not drive even if they used rubber boats.

Unexpectedly, the Japanese army was very lucky this time, just in time for several days of heavy rain, and the water level soared, which allowed the Japanese warships and rubber boats to drive in the Xiangjiang River.

The head of the Uemura Dry Male Brigade was in a particularly good mood, he stood in the cabin of the flagship "Qifeng" of the 11th team, browsing the more than 20 warships around him and moving forward rapidly, the huge propellers behind each warship were rotating rapidly, stirring the originally calm lake surface of Dongting Lake to break in an instant, so that the originally clear lake water suddenly became turbid, and there was a long bunch of white foam behind the boat, like dragging a long tail.

More than 20 warships and more than 20 long white tails are enough to make Dongting Lake never quiet again.

There are also more than 100 speedboats, on the vast and vast lake, like water scorpions, swimming forward quickly around the edge of the battleship. Some of these speedboats were tin boats, and the iron plates of the boats were very thin, that is, about 2 mm, but they could seat 20 to 30 soldiers, and the back of the boat was equipped with a power plant.

Some are rubber boats, as the saying goes, they are motorboats, and with power in the back, each rubber boat can seat more than ten people.

These speedboats alone can also transport more than 2,000 troops at a time. Coupled with the 20 or so battleships, the deck in the cabin was full of soldiers, and in any case, it could transport four to five thousand troops at a time.

The battleships and speedboats formed a powerful mixed battle team on water and land, and they came to Yingtian majestically.

The commander of the Uemura Dry Male Brigade proudly said to Major General Eiji Kondo of the 11th Sentai Team, "Dear Commander Eiji Kondo, Yingtian has arrived. It's up to your navy, your navy will bomb the positions of the camp to pieces, and our 5th Brigade will attack them and kill them without leaving a single piece of armor. ”

Rear Admiral Kondo Eiji was still quite cautious because he had many battles with the navy of the Nationalist Army, especially the battle with the Southern Expeditionary Army, and he took the telescope and observed the position of Yingtian, and said cautiously to Mikio Uemura:

"Commander of the Gantian Brigade, don't underestimate China's navy and army, they are still quite tenacious, especially the Chinese Southern Expeditionary Army, what is it called Han Xing, he has a very strong air force, and we have suffered a lot of losses from them. Let's see, the camp is a little too quiet! ”

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