Section 381 The Moon on the Sea
"So the other party looks down on our Fujian system?" Sa Zhenbing's face was gloomy, and before he could speak, Chen Jialiang spoke first.
"Jialiang, don't be impatient, listen to Hengqi." No one dared to refute Sa Zhenbing's words, and several admirals obediently waited for Cheng Biguang to convey the other party's conditions. "Hengqi, go on, don't omit a word."
"Yes, Sa Gong, the other party's Commander Feng Ru Feng Dafei made a special trip to Qingdao to meet with the humble post. He conveyed the meaning of the Wehrmacht. He said that as China's only legitimate national defense armed forces, the independent status of the National Defense Forces is beyond question. In addition, no political party, religion, sectarian organization, or commune party may possess national defense arms. Prior to this, the Fujian and Guangdong Navy was a state armed force, and legally speaking, it should belong to the state, not any private person who could occupy it, and the national defense force would not allow us to continue to wander outside the system, whether from the perspective of consolidating national defense or being responsible for the officers and men of the navy. As for the resettlement plan for us, it is a preliminary plan and can be negotiated, but,"
Speaking of this, Cheng Biguang stopped talking, there seemed to be something unspeakable, Sa Zhenbing looked at the eyes of the generals around him, he knew that there must be no concealment at this moment, otherwise this team would be scattered and could not be led. What's more, there is no way to hide this matter, it involves the way out of everyone, and it is better to judge for personal gain.
"Hengqi, you don't have to worry about anything, although you repeat the original words, let us also hear what General Wu's attitude is towards our Fujian and Guangdong Navy."
"Sa Gong, this Feng Ru gave one special instruction at the end of the negotiation, that is, we must pay attention to one of the three prohibitions."
"Well, hehe, the old man is going to listen to it." Sa Zhen sneered.
"This means that we have three paths that we cannot choose, first, we must not allow defection to the surrounding foreign forces, otherwise it will be treason."
"Well, why do you need him Wu Chenxuan to remind him about this matter, the old man still has this backbone." Of course, Sa Zhenbing understands that Wu Chenxuan does not allow him to defect to the Japanese who stole Taiwan, most of these navies are descendants of the Beiyang Fleet, and some of them simply participated in the war, so the possibility of the Fujian Navy surrendering to Japan is very small, not to mention historical grievances, even the Japanese themselves are not short of their old fleets, and the second-hand goods just bought from Europe are much better than their ships.
"The second is that naval vessels are not allowed to engage in acts of piracy and rob passing merchant ships."
Sa Zhenbing turned his head to see that some generals had already lowered their heads, afraid that they had been fishing for oil and water at sea before. But being a pirate in the navy is never a glorious thing.
Cheng Biguang saw that the atmosphere around him was not right, and hurriedly added, "General Feng Rufeng said that General Wu means that he is not to blame in the past, but from now on, he must abide by the law and discipline, and he can no longer do things that hurt heaven and reason." ”
In fact, it's okay not to explain, this sentence makes more people lower their heads, after all, they have more or less robbed the people's property, stopped boats and pumped water, and have done some work, otherwise how can they afford to support themselves and a group of township party subordinates.
"Third, it means that we can't plunder and sell people or force coastal people to move to Penghu." Cheng Biguang hurriedly finished speaking.
Sa Zhenbing smiled slightly, this is because I am afraid that I will be Jinghaihou. "For our generals, there is nothing that Chief Wu can't say?" Seeing that Cheng Biguang had finished speaking, the anxious generals had already begun to make noise, which caused Chen Jialiang and them to glare angrily, but the thick-skinned guys were immune. For more than a year, many soldiers have been miserable, and the officers are not willing to sit on this island and be in a troubled city.
"Has the other side put forward any conditions for these warships?" Chen Jialiang took the opportunity to raise a question that everyone is concerned about, you must know that the most important thing in the Fujian navy is the ship, if there is no strong ship and artillery, what ability do these Fujian Yankees have besides being able to drive ships? Therefore, although the ship is broken, this is the capital of their Fujian navy.
"That's it. But" Cheng Biguang glanced at Sa Zhenbing who was pondering, and the other party's eyes didn't see his request, Cheng Biguang had no choice but to continue: "The other party proposed in the plan that except for the four cruisers of the Haizi that can be used as patrol ships of the coast guard after overhaul, the other warships are used as target ships for training purposes. ”
"Huh? Such a good warship is used as a target, has he Wu Chenxuan shown off? "Lin Songzhuang is the captain of the destroyer "Flying Eagle", in addition to the Four Seas Ship is his warship, but I didn't expect that the Wehrmacht not only didn't take a fancy to his precious warship, but even recycled steel was too troublesome, and planned to simply sink it, how could he not let him get angry?
In fact, the "Flying Eagle" and other destroyers are quite in a state of being driven. Speaking of which, the destroyers of this time (formerly known as the Fish * Shell Ship or Hunter Ship) were not the destroyers of later generations. For example, the "Flying Eagle", a destroyer (formerly known as a torpedo or hunting ship), was built at the Vulcan factory in Stettin, Germany, and completed in 1895; The hull is 259.2 feet long, 28.6 feet wide and has a draft of 12.6 feet. Displacement 850 tons. She is the only ship in the Chinese Navy with four chimneys, and its eight Yarrow boilers produce 5,430 horsepower and a speed of 22 knots. Crew 145 people; Armed with two Kluber 4.1-inch guns, six three-pounder (47-pound) guns, and four machine guns; and there are three torpedo tubes; It is an advanced destroyer design than the "Thunder" ship. The ship's radio call sign is "XPS." In 1932, a conflict broke out between the Fourth Fleet of the Guangdong Navy and Chen Jitang, and on 7 July, the Japanese ship was bombed by Chen Jitang's planes.
The representative of another destroyer is the "Thunder", which is 196 feet long, 22.9 feet wide, 6.9 feet draft, and has a displacement of 323 tons; Two coal-fired boilers with twin shaft propulsion, 3,000 hp with a maximum speed of 21.45 knots (210 feet long, 24 feet wide, 9.4 feet draft, 720 tons of displacement, 800 hp and a maximum speed of 12 knots) with a crew of 50 people; It is equipped with two Armstrong 25-pound (100-pound) main guns, four three-pound (47-pound) guns, three 14-inch torpedo tubes (one fixed in the bow, one in the front and one in the front and rear, and 12 torpedoes in reserve); The firepower is very strong. However, because the freeboard was too low and the navigation performance was not good, the Qing court installed a fence in the original factory after purchasing it to meet the needs of sailing back to China across the ocean. The "Flying Thunder" ship basically did not perform well, and her ship design did not become the mainstream of later destroyers.
In addition to this, there was a special practice cruiser (formerly a transport ship) in the Min Navy. The construction of the No. 14 ship by the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau was started in 1893 and completed in 1894 at a cost of 1.1 million silver dollars. Steel hull, length 252.7 feet, width 34.7 feet, cabin depth 36 feet, draft 18 feet, displacement 1,900 tons, cargo: 600 tons; Four coal-fired boilers, a twin-cylinder reciprocating steam engine producing 1,600 hp single-shaft propulsion, a speed of 10.5 knots, a crew of 23 officers, 190 non-commissioned officers and men; It is equipped with two Armstrong 6-inch guns (mounted on the two sides of the bridge), five Kluber 4.7-inch guns, three 6-pound (57-ton) guns, and eight 1-pound (37-pound) guns. The radio call sign of the "Tongji" ship is "XPF". Since this ship has been used as a practice ship for the students of Mawei Sea School for a long time, the teachers and students have nicknamed it "Jibo".
The "Tongji" was originally a transport ship of the same class as the "Fu'an", and its original name was "Jianjing" and belonged to the Fujian fleet; In September 1895, due to the total annihilation of the Beiyang Fleet in the First Sino-Japanese War, the ship was purchased by Beiyang as a practice cruiser. On December 21 of that year, the three countries intervened to return Liao, and the ship was sent to Lushun to recover the Liaodong Peninsula from Japan, but the next day it was forcibly borrowed by Russia and handed over again, and China only symbolically recovered it for one day.
The "Tongji" had been repaired on June 7, 1914, after 36 people were killed or wounded in an explosion at an ammunition depot, but it was not fully restored and could only exist as a dock queen. The pipe belt of the ship is Ge Baoyan, and Chen Jialiang, the leader of the Shaozhuang faction at this time, took office as the captain of the ship in October 1919, and the last captain of the Yangtze River was Yan Shouhua when the Yangtze River sank in 1937.
It is of the same level as "Tongji", but it is an army with a transport ship, and the No. 5 ship built by the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau was completed in 1897 at a cost of 200,000 taels. It is 238 feet long, 32.2 feet wide, 24 feet deep, 16 feet draft, 1,700 tons of displacement, 1,600 hp single-axle propulsion, and 10 knots. The crew is 105 people, equipped with two 57-gun guns and two 37-gun guns; The radio call sign of the ship "Fuan" is "XNL".
During the Wuchang Revolution, the ships were ordered by the Qing court to go to Hubei to crusade against the revolutionary army, but they revolted in front of the Hankou Front; As a result, Ji Sheng, the full man of the "Hairong" ship (deputy commander), actually committed suicide by throwing himself into the river (one said that he committed suicide because he could not repay his debts). These warships are basically the trump cards in the hands of the Fujian navy, but I didn't expect the national defense force to care at all, and even the relatively new Flying Thunder and Flying Eagle had to be sent to the undersea Dragon Palace as sacrifices, which couldn't help but make the Fujian navy feel that its value was underestimated.
"What are the other party's plans?" Some generals have begun to doubt the sincerity of the other side.
"A bunch of nephews, even a muddy bay the size of a bathtub is regarded as the sea (Bohai Sea), how do they understand the navy, I am afraid that the other party thinks that it is too expensive to raise the navy, and plans to sell the navy and go as a tortoise."
"Yes, yes, these northerners are not well-intentioned, and they must be planning to dismantle ships and sell ships."
"Maybe someone gave them a tip, right?" There is no shortage of conspiracy theorists in China, and this is not a captain who squinted his eyes at Cheng Biguang while saying this.
"I heard that although the person named Feng Ru is an overseas Chinese, he is also a Cantonese Yankee at the root." As soon as someone started, someone went to make up for the rest of the seller's plot of seeking glory, Cheng Biguang's lips trembled, but he couldn't defend himself, at this time, he could only bring humiliation on himself, so Cheng Biguang didn't talk at all.
"Bang" A baleng crystal cup was shattered by the powder, Sa Zhenbing stood up, turned around and entered the inner cabin without saying a word, except for Cheng Biguang, no one dared to follow up, everyone sat down for a while with big eyes and then dispersed, but many people were thinking of a way out tonight. The bright moon on the sea on the Penghu Islands no longer illuminates the quiet harbor, but also the ghost people's hearts under the moonlight.