From October 24 to 26, Bailiyan completed the pre-war deployment, selected the route to the water, and dived into the sea through the secret passage leading to the port in the city.

At the beginning of the expansion of the port, two secret passages were dug from inside the city to the outside of the port, leading directly to the two stone chambers under the port wharf.

The twelve frogmen each carried two compressed gas cylinders, a five-pound TNT explosive block, and every three people were in a group, and three TNT pieces were installed centrally, each with an interval of two zhang to ensure that three holes were blown out and the hull was torn in an instant.

The explosion points will not be too scattered, and the damage points will not be torn and expanded, and the gap will be plugged by the watertight cabin or the emergency repair team.

After all, only five catties of TNT, in the face of carbon steel with a thickness of maybe 100 millimeters, may not be able to cause fatal wounds.

Although the tactics and sortie route have been selected, Bailiyan is still very worried, the axillary eye's infrared perception vision has been analyzed by the storm, and the ultimate effective distance is 200 zhang and 20 zhang, according to the difference in personal physique and physical energy loss, it may increase or decrease, but it is basically within this range, so even if you dive underwater, you still have the ability to be perceived by infrared.

At the end of October, the temperature is lowered, the water temperature is also reduced, the human infrared will be particularly eye-catching, if the water is too shallow, the infrared signature is not enough to be absorbed by the seawater, it is easy to be exposed, according to the calculation of the storm, must be potentially below five zhang to escape the infrared field of view.

The frogman usually trains to a depth of about four feet, and only frogs who have been more than 10 years old have the adaptation to 20 to 30 meters of heavy diving, because the water pressure will act on the human skin and organs, and sudden diving will cause permanent hydrostatic sickness.

Therefore, the depth of five zhang is a life of nine deaths for this batch of frogmen who have not been trained for a few years. But the matter has come to this point, and now we can only bite the bullet and get rid of the ironclad.

While Bailiyan was secretly preparing for a counterattack, the four canned ironclad ships outside Guangxin Port carried out an ammunition replenishment, and then continued to bombard the city indiscriminately.

The ten four-deck fortress ships entrenched in the offshore sea were like ghosts, hiding fifteen miles away to carry out waves of strikes on Guangxin, hoping to destroy Guangxin's fortifications with density.

The tactical passivity caused by mines and mines has made the armpit people understand that in addition to their scientific and technological strength, the power of new weapons and the losses they have suffered several times have also made them quickly adjust their tactics and carry out artillery bombardment on areas along the coast that have landing conditions, in an attempt to blow up the mines planted by the Xian army.

However, most of them were wasted ammunition, and the Xian army did not have many mines, and in addition to its extreme familiarity with the water and terrain, the minelaying was extremely cleverly placed.

In addition, some mines are covered with rubber coatings and waterproof, and they are buried under the half-shallow sand, making them undetectable. When the war is over, all minefields will be marked with maps, and they will be bulldozed and dug up in one go, either by manpower or bulldozers.

Previously, Bailiyan had been worried that the armpit fleet would set its sights on Lincheng, because Lincheng could be seen with the naked eye with chimneys, and it was a typical industrialized city, and the armpit people should be the first to destroy.

However, the port of Lincheng is small, and the main city is shrunk within the coastline for more than ten miles, most of the ships and artillery do not pose a threat, on the contrary, there are forts and fortresses along the coast of Lincheng, the scale is second only to Guangxin, and it must hide outside the coastline for ten to fifteen miles to open fire to be safe, so it is twenty-five miles away from the main city of Lincheng, and it is almost impossible to pose a threat.

However, the delay in destroying the strong fortifications of Guangxin, and the tight fire network formed by other fortress batteries along the coast, made the armpit people dare not continue to expand naval activities, so they focused on shelling Guangxin.

Except for sporadic tentative attacks on other batteries in Beihai County, without large-scale firepower preparations, it should be Guangxin's fortified city, which made them realize that the situation was more serious than they imagined, and the rapid consumption of ammunition was no longer enough to support them to allocate more firepower resources to open up a third battlefield.

In addition, Wild Lan believes that the armpit people do not attack Lincheng for another purpose, and that is to seize the complete industrial base.

The armpit people obviously realized that the technological strength of Xian was comparable to it, and the difference in technological paths allowed them to obtain more advanced technologies and ideas, so technically they needed a complete human industrial city as a source of technology.

Second, they traveled thousands of miles to the southern hemisphere, and the economic cost of transporting arms consumables and industrial supplies from their homeland was high, so it was better to seize the human industrial base and use it for them, so it was necessary to retain an entire industrial center.

While preparations were in full swing for the bombing of the ship, the situation in Sangbei was still deadlocked, and the armpit people had apparently believed that the Xian army in front of Sangbei was the elite main force, and they pinned their hopes on achieving a breakthrough at Guangxin.

On October 28, 95 millichlorine ammunition, 300,000 gas masks and air filters arrived outside the city by truck, and Bailiyan mobilized the remaining 645 Type 95 cannon from Xue Sheng's department and a 645 Type 95 cannon from the Armament Battalion, a total of 64 guns, and arrived at 10 miles to the canning boat at night, calibrated Zhuyuan to hide and standby, and carried out fire preparations.

On the night of October 30, at the temporary headquarters of the underground bunker in the north of the city, Bai Liyan looked at his pocket watch, and when the minute hand pointed to four quarters, he picked up the phone at hand and gave an order to Jiang Jie, who was waiting in another secret passage

"Let's go!"

"No."

Hanging up the phone, Bailiyan connected to Sikong Nan

"Flare it."

"No!"

The clean and neat two lives are as strong as a rock of steel, as three red signal flares rose in the night sky, dozens of grenade launchers shot out a dazzling bright light, dozens of flares in the north of the city rose into the air, piercing the night sky and flying straight outside the port, the armpit artillery had no intention of stopping the fire, still roaring and pouring hundreds of ammunition, when they saw the white light rising in the city, they were puzzled

"Look, it's the white light of a strange animal!"

"Maybe it's some kind of code, are they going to attack?"

"Impossible, our ironclad ships are invincible, they are just low-level alien animals!"

The armpit officers and men continued to argue, but the flares continued to shoot into the sky and illuminate the entire harbor, and the twelve frogmen, carrying explosives and equipment, dived to the bottom of the water at a depth of five feet, and quietly swam to the four ironclad ships.

Time passed minute by minute, Bai Liyan anxiously waited and paced back and forth in the command center, and ten minutes had passed.

But he knew that it would take one and a half to three miles to swim from the port to the ironclad, and if it went well, it would take three to half an hour to arrive, and if it didn't go well, no one knew how long it would take.

Another moment passed, and Chen Yunfeng, who was sitting on the side, suddenly said

"Guangxin is now in ruins, and after driving away the armpit people, Yongxing Hou can have a long-term plan in the future."

"Don't hide it from Brother Chen, I really haven't thought about it, but Guangxin City Port may be useless in thirty or fifty years, even if the armpit people are driven out in the future, it will still make a comeback in the south, and Guangxin Linhai, it is inevitable that it will fall into war for a long time, so I suggest that Guangxin Zhisu move south for thirty miles, and choose a new place to build a city, Guangxin City as a fortress. Or go to other counties and expand the county seat as the foundation of life. ”

The voice fell, Jiang Qian said

"Having said that, Guangxin suffered from this catastrophe, the loss of finance and taxes was sixty percent, and the loss of the whole city was even more immeasurable, and there are still hundreds of thousands of people who need to be resettled, and this money and food is not a small amount."

"Brother rest assured, this matter has its own imperial court appropriation for resettlement, when the war is a little lowered, I will immediately allocate 50,000 disaster relief tents, 20,000 sets of board houses, to resettle the affected people, the money is also borne by the treasury, Guangxin only needs to make up for the shortage, no need to bear it all."

Guangxin suffered two wars in a row, the whole city was razed to the ground, the loss of fixed property is almost astronomical, the finance accounts for sixty percent of the Guangxin territory, only rely on the remaining other county finances and taxes, simply unable to resettle hundreds of thousands of victims, hollowing out the Guangxin government can not do, at this time it is necessary to have a strong state apparatus, to provide strong assistance.

In the more than ten years before the war, Xianguo successively added or moved in 20 million people, of which more than 4 million were refugees or relatives and friends who had no fixed place to live.

Since then, thanks to the increase in industrial capacity, Bailiyan has the spare capacity to produce relief tents from the quilt factory, and wood chips, bamboo, and metal components from the wood factory to produce sawdust boards for disaster relief.

Time passed minute by minute, and there was still no movement at six minutes, and everyone couldn't help but worry, Jiang Qian asked

"Could something have happened?"

"It may be possible for one person to have an accident, but it is impossible for twelve people to have an accident at the same time. Wait......"

As soon as the voice fell, Bailiyan had the phone at hand

"Hey, I'm Bailiyan!"

Sikong Nan on the other end of the phone said excitedly

"Master Hou, it's blown up, it's blown up, the armpit man's ironclad ship has been blown up!"

"Are you sure?"

"Sure, it's very sure, the next time I see the fire flickering on the surface of the sea, it is sure that there is an explosion underwater, and the sound of gold and iron twisting can be heard at this moment."

"Good! Very good, continue to fire flares, guide frogmen back, observe enemy ships. ”

"No!"

Hanging up the phone, Jiang Qian got up and asked

"But it worked."

"At the moment, it has only successfully exploded underwater, and it is not yet certain whether it will sink or not."

After speaking, Bai Liyan picked up the phone and called Jiang Jie

"Jiang Jie, the enemy ship has exploded, prepare to respond."

"The last will understand."

Hanging up the phone, Bai Liyan said to Jiang Qian

"Let's go to the Bunker and find out."

"That's what I mean, brother-in-law, please."

"Please!"

Everyone hurriedly walked out of the temporary command post and ascended to the dark fort located within the wall of the north gate through the tunnel. The observation hole of the bunker is directly facing the face, and an eight-fold periscope is erected.

The periscope is an observation device prepared by Bailiyan for the infantry to garrison trenches and fortifications, so as not to show his head to observe the enemy's situation, and be killed by stray bullets or even accurate shooting.

In the periscope, you can see that the night of the harbor is like a day, and there is not only the effect of flares, but also the internal explosion caused by the explosion of the armpit ship, as Sikong Nan said, two miles away, you can hear the piercing and twisting sound of the ship, which makes people extremely uncomfortable.

"With such a big explosion, it seems that the armpit ironclad ship will not escape its doom."

At this time, Jiang Qian said

"When the artillery fires, don't let it escape."

"You have to wait for the frogman to return before you can fire, or you will hurt yourself. This kind of ironclad ship was not driving fast, but now it is heading out of the port and tail, and it is even more difficult to retreat into the sea, and it is even more difficult to retreat into the sea, and it is injured underwater, so it can only save more people by rushing to the beach and sinking in the port, and there is absolutely no reason to escape from the port and sink in the deep sea. ”

According to the previous plan, regardless of the success of the underwater blasting, the four ironclad ships would be attacked with chlorine bombs, releasing chlorine gas in the hope of killing more armpit men, and they must not be allowed to go ashore in a large number of close-quarters firefights and hand-to-hand combat.

Especially in night firefights, humans suffer very much from not having night vision, and hand-to-hand combat humans are even less advantageous, with physical strength and rifle length, as well as height disadvantage, it takes at least five humans to offset its advantage.

Jiang Qian didn't understand machinery, didn't understand steam power structure, and was worried that the armpit people would lose the opportunity to destroy the enemy by repairing the ironclad ship and escaping from the port, but in fact it was not.

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